THE LIVES
OF
THE TWELVE CAESARS
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[571] A.U.C. 813.
[572] The baths of Nero stood to the west of the Pantheon. They were,
probably, incorporated with those afterwards constructed by Alexander
Severus; but no vestige of them remains. That the former were
magnificent, we may infer from the verses of Martial:
--------Quid Nerone pejus?
Quid thermis melius Neronianis.--B. vii. ch. 34.
What worse than Nero?
What better than his baths?
[573] Among the Romans, the time at which young men first shaved the
beard was marked with particular ceremony. It was usually in their
twenty-first year, but the period varied. Caligula (c. x.) first shaved
at twenty; Augustus at twenty-five.
[574] A.U.C. 819. See afterwards, c. xxx.
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