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The Komau Philosophers, like the Greek, cherished a
long Beard as the cmhlcm of wisdom. The following
anecdote shews that it was sometimes a fallacious sign.
One of the Emperors heing pestered hy a man in a long
rohe and Beard, asked him what lie was. "Do you not
see that I am a philosopher?" was the reply. " The cloak
I see, and the Beard I see," said the Emperor, " but the
philosopher, where is he ? "
I must not conclude this notice of Roman customs
without mentioning the instructive fact, that the slaves of
the early Romans were shaved as a mark of servitude, and
not allowed to wear the distinctive sign of a free man
until emancipated. At a later period the slaves, as the
most manly, wore the Beard, and only shaved when en-
titled to be put on a level with their debased and vicious
masters !
