[18] Athenaeus iv. 154a.
[19] Livy ix. 30. 5-10. Plutarch, Aetia Romana, 55.
[20] Dionys. Halicarn. vii. 72-3.
[21] Livy i. 35. 9.
[22] Hesych. s. v. The word is not mentioned in S.P. Cortsen’s Vocabulorum Etruscorum interpretatio in Nordisk Tidsskr. for Filologi, 1917; no doubt because he considers Hesychius’s statement insufficiently authoritative. Cp. Skutsch, Pauly-Wissowa, vi. 775.
[23] Helbig’s letters of June 21 and December 10, 1895.
[24] Thus the facsimile at this point gives more than I at any rate could see: on the other hand, less as far as brow and nose are concerned.
[25] Plutarch, Aetia Romana 98.
[26] Plautus, Truculentus 290, 294, Mostellaria 259 ff. In Greece also, women used white lead as paint: Lysias i. 14 and 17.
[27] Quotation from Aeschylus by Theophrastus (who endorses the opinion): History of Plants ix. 15. 1.