A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Beckmann
379. Servius, Æn. iv. quotes the following words from Cato: “Mulieres
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nostræ cinere capillum ungitabant, ut rutilus esset crinis.” Alex.
Trallianus, 1, 3, gives directions how to make an ointment for gray
hair from soap and the ashes of the white flowers of the _Verbascum_.
The _Cinerarii_, however, of Tertullian, lib. ii. _ad uxor._ 8, p. 641,
seem to have been only hair-dressers, who were so called because they
warmed their curling-irons among the hot ashes.
[240] Pliny says that spots of the skin may be removed by ox-gall.
[241] Odyss. vi. 91.
[242] Iliad, ix. 14, and xvi. 4.
[243] Geopon. vii. 6.--Plin. xiv. cap. 21.--Columella, xii. 50. 14.
[244] Arnobius, vii. p. 237.
[245] The word λίτρον in Pollux ought not to have been translated
_sapo_.
[246] Cicer. Ep. Fam. viii. 14.--Pollucis Onom. viii. 9, 39; x.
135.--Ovid. De Medicam. Faciei, ver. 73 et 85.--Phavorini Dictionar. p.
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