Note 718 — Chapter XIX · FISH IN MYTHS, SYMBOLS, DIET, AND MEDICINE
Reading edition
Salpe the midwife recommends this prescription to disguise the age of boys on sale for slaves (Pliny, XXXII. 47). At the end of the chapter the author seems to awake from his trance of trustfulness, in the words, “in the case of every depilatory, the hairs should always be removed before it is applied!”