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 presented his in a golden box, set with jewels, to the Capitoline Jupiter.

Shaving in token of grief was the custom of the early Romans; when, however, that which had been considered a deprivation became a general fashion, the Beard was allowed to grow in time of sorrow, to denote personal neglect.