MDDM Ch. 60 A Passage in Pliny

[Dave Monroe]

"'Large Eyebrows,' Mason had opined, 'betray a leaning
to pugnacious eccentricity,-- there is a passage in
Pliny to that effect.  Or, there ought to be.'" (M&D,
Ch. 60, p. 595)

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 595.33 "there is a passage in Pliny to that effect"
> - Is there?

Caius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia
Naturalis (ca. 77 AD) ...

http://www.ku.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/home.html

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pliny.nhpr.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/

The first, however, yields only small rectangles where
characters should be; the second yields, well, Latin;
I had high hopes for the third, but ...

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny7.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/pliny7.html#chap17

At any rate, see in general ...

http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/voices/voices1d.html

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/FrankenDemo/People/pliny.html

http://www.bartleby.com/100/710.html

In the meantime ...

"Bear-grease, mixed with laudanum and maidenhair,
prevents hair from falling out and cures mange and
thin eyebrows, if mixed with lamp-black from
lamp-wicks and the soot that collects in the nozzles;
mixed with wine, bear-grease is a cure for dandruff."

http://www.got01.dial.pipex.com/encyclopaedia%20pliny

But do note as well ...

"If I had a nickel for every time ‘eyes’ or ‘eyebrows’
are mentioned in this novel ..." ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9803&msg=25398&sort=date

And, esp. ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9804&msg=25650&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9803&msg=25540&sort=date

"Or, there ought to be."  "Betraying a leaning toward
pugnacious eccentricty," indeed ...

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