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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2611273, member: 57495&quot;]Nice!&nbsp; We really can&#039;t forget Julian II, who was so injured by the Christian community of Antioch making fun of his unfashionably pagan-y beard that he was prompted to write the satire, <i><a href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/misopogon.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/misopogon.html" rel="nofollow">Misopogon </a>(&quot;Beard-hater&quot;)</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here he&#039;s writing about his face: </p><p><i>&quot;For though nature did not make this any too handsome or well-favoured or give it the bloom of youth, I myself out of sheer perversity and ill-temper have added to it this long beard of mine, to punish it, as it would seem, for this very crime of not being handsome by nature. For the same reason I put up with the lice that scamper about in it as though it were a thicket for wild beasts. As for eating greedily or drinking with my mouth wide open, it is not in my power; for I must take care, I suppose, or before I know it I shall eat up some of my own hairs along with my crumbs of bread&quot;. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Instructive <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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