Note 491 — ANCIENT ROMAN MEDICINE-STAMPS.
Reading edition
Commentar. in App. vi. 31. De Simplic. Med. ix. 39. Dr. Adams' Paulus Ægineta, vol. iii. p. 420. Plautus, in his Mostellaria (Act i. scene iii. v. 106), enumerates in the same line the Cerussa and Melinum as among the number of the cosmetic paints used at the toilets of the Roman ladies:—
Non isthanc aetatem oportet pigmentum ullum attingere Neque cerussam, neque melinum, neque ullam aliam offuciam.