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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lomentum

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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. 

LOMEN'TUM. A wash or paste for the skin, made of bean meal and rice worked up together, which the Roman ladies applied to their faces for the purpose of taking out wrinkles, and giving a clear tint and smoothness to the skin. Mart. iii. 42. Compare Pallad. xi. 14. 9.

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