Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Intonsus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

INTON'SUS (ἀκερσεκόμης). Unshorn; i. e. wearing long hair; with an implied sense of youthfulness; for both the Greeks and Romans cropped their hair upon arriving at the age of puberty, after which period long hair was regarded as unmanly; excepting with reference to certain deities, such as Eros, the god of love, represented in the example (Intonsus/1.1), from a bronze of Herculaneum, Apollo, and Bacchus, to whom it is attributed as a sign of perpetual youth. Ov. Trist. iii. 1. 60. Prop. iii. 13. 52. Tibull. i. 4. 36.

2. (ἄκουρος). Unshaven; i. e. wearing the beard at its natural length, which was the custom of the earlier ages, as in the annexed example (Intonsus/2.1), from an engraved gem, intended to represent Numa; whence, in after times, when shaving had become a general fashion, the word implies a rude, uncouth person, of antiquated manners. Hor. Od. ii. 15. 11. Tibull. ii. 1. 34. Ov. Fast. ii. 30. Liv. xxi. 32.

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