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emperors) dedicated to Minerva, with the foUowing 

 inscription : Tithe dedicated hy Nausicrates to the 

 Daughter of Zeus. . . . 



LIX. Tlie next agreement bctween nations was in 

 the matter of shaving the beard, but with the Ilomans introductum 

 this was later. Barbers came to Ilome from Sicily in "Z*'""^'»^- 

 300 B.c, according to Varro being brought there by 

 Pubhus Titinius Mena ; before then the Romans had 

 been unshaved. The second Africanus first intro- 

 duced a daily shave. His late Majesty Augustus 

 never neglected the razor. 



LX. The third agreement was in the observation 

 of the hours (this now being an addition made by systcmsof 

 theor\'),° the date and inventor of which we have stated ^""pivio ■ 

 in Book II.'' This also happened later at Rome : in svn-diais. 

 the Twelve Tables only sunrise and sunset are 

 specified ; a few years later noon was also added, 

 the consuls' apparitor announcing it when from the 

 Senate-house he saw the sun between the Beaks and 

 the Greek Lodging. When the sun sloped from the 

 Maenian Column to the Prison he announced the last 

 hour, but this onlv on clear days, down to the First 

 Punic War. We have it on the authority of Fabius 

 Vestalis that the first sundial was erected 11 years 

 before the war"^ with Pyrrhus at the Temple of 

 Quirinus by Lucius Papii-ius Cursor when dedicating 

 that temple, which had been vowed by his father; 

 but Fabius does not indicate the principle of the sun- 

 diaVs construction or the maker, nor where it was 

 brought from or the name of the writer who is his 

 authority for the statement. Marcus Varro records 

 that the first public sun-dial was set up on a column 

 along by the Beaks during the Fir-^t Punic War after 



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