Note 2455 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.
John Bostock translation
“Conjuges nurusque.” Cæsar says that all the people in Britain were in the habit of staining the body with woad, to add to the horror of their appearance in battle. Pomponius Mela expresses himself as uncertain for what purpose it was done, whether it was to add to their beauty, or for some other reasons to him unknown.