BARBA,
the Beard, the Hait that grows on the Face. The Romans for a long time wore it without shaving or cutting, and the time is not exactly known, when they began to do it. Titus Livius seems to tell us, that this Custom was in use from the Year 369, for speaking of Manlius Capitoli∣nus who was taken Prisoner,
He relates that the greatest part of the People being troubled at his Imprisonment, changed their Cloaths, and let their Beards, and Hair grow.If this were so, then we may infer that out of times of Mourning they had their Hair cut and their Beards shaved.
Nevertheless Varro speaks clearly, that the first Barbers came out of Sicily to Rome, in the Year 454, and that a Man called Ti∣cimus Menas brought them. From that time the Young Men began to have their Beards cut, and Hair, till they came to be 49 Years old; but it was not allowed to be done above that Age, says Pliny. Scipio Africa∣nus had himself shaved all his Days, and Augustus did the same in Imitation of him.
The Young Men did not begin to shave themselves, till they were Twenty or Twen∣ty one Years of Age, as did Nero and Caligu∣la, but Augustus did not do it, till he was Twenty five Years old.
The Day wherein they were shaved the first time was a Day of rejoicing, and they