Note 2 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTION Summary of Opinions on the Nature of Man
P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell translation
Shaving the beard began at the time of the Macedonian rule, and philosophers refrained from the new custom, which seemed to them unprincipled. (V. Hermann, “Lehrbuch der griechischen Privatalterthümer,” 1870, vol. I., pp. 175–177.)