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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 436 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Resinata. Resin dissolved in oil was used to clear the skin of superfluous hairs. Cf. Plin., xiv., 20, "pudet confiteri maximum jam honorem (resinæ) esse in evellendis ab virorum corporibus pilis."

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