Note 338 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)
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This was the special adornment of the woman, and was sacred to Venus; we read in Ausonius,
Barba Iovi, crines Veneri decor; ergo necesse est, Ut nolint demi, quo sibi uterque placet.
(The beard is Jove’s pride, her locks Venus’s: they must needs then object to the removal of that wherein each takes special delight). Hence Ambrosius too, Hexamer. bk. VI., writes, Haud inscitum extat adagium: nullus comatus qui non idem cinaedus. (There is a familiar proverb that says: never a long-haired man but is a cinaedus.) In Martial, III. 58., they are called capillati (long-haired.)