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cuse, who flourished from 430 to 367 8.C., may be quoted, although it doee not properly come under the heading of “How the Romans Shaved,” for Dionysius was a Greek: “Further, to avoid entrusting hia neck to a barber, he (Dionysius) taught his owu daughters to shave him. So the royal maidens, acting in the mean and servile occupation of barbers, shaved their father’s beard and head. Nay, even them, at soon as they were grown up, he deprived of the iron (instrument) and ordered them to singe his beard with heated walnut shells.”
Even if we aro wrong in concluding that here we have the earliest mention of lady barbers and singeing, tho references to the “mean and servile occupation” would seem to emphasise the fact that even over 2000 years ago tho slogan of the.“elite” was “Only a barber 1”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 11
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