A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Beckmann

nostræ cinere capillum ungitabant, ut rutilus esset crinis.” Alex. Trallianus, 1, 3, gives directions how to make an ointment for gray hair from soap and the ashes of the white flowers of the _Verbascum_. The _Cinerarii_, however, of Tertullian, lib. ii. _ad uxor._ 8, p. 641, seem to have been only hair-dressers, who were so called because they warmed their curling-irons among the hot ashes. [240] Pliny says that spots of the skin may be removed by ox-gall. [241] Odyss. vi. 91. [242] Iliad, ix. 14, and xvi. 4. [243] Geopon. vii. 6.--Plin. xiv. cap. 21.--Columella, xii. 50. 14. [244] Arnobius, vii. p. 237. [245] The word λίτρον in Pollux ought not to have been translated _sapo_. [246] Cicer. Ep. Fam. viii. 14.--Pollucis Onom. viii. 9, 39; x. 135.--Ovid. De Medicam. Faciei, ver. 73 et 85.--Phavorini Dictionar. p.