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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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