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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 999 — JUVENAL'S SATIRES. (continued 3)

Lewis Evans translation

Pilosas. ii., 11, "Hispida membra quidem et duræ per brachia setæ promittunt atrocem animum." Combs were usually made of box-wood. Ov., Fast., vi., 229, "Non mihi detonsos crines depectere buxo." Mart., xiv., Ep. xxv., 2, "Quid faciet nullos hic inventura capillos, multifido buxus quæ tibi dente datur."

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