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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 542 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 2)

Lewis Evans translation

Digito. Effeminate wretches, who, as Holyday says, like women, are afraid of touching their heads with more than a finger, for fear of discomposing their curls. Pompey had this charge brought against him by one Calvus; and cf. Plut. in Vit., 48. Amm. Marcell., XVII., xi.

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