So Juno, when dressing herself to recover the love of her husband, is represented by the father of the poets combing her hair: Il. ξ. _depexos nitide nodo substricta capillos_. But the reason of the statue before mentioned was thus: there was a cutaneous distemper among the Roman women, injurious to their hair; for they were forced to cut it all off: therefore they dedicated a statue to _Venus Pectinigera_, upon which their hair came again as fine as ever. This story is told in Suidas. [3] Solinus cap. XXII. de mirabilibus Britanniæ. Mela de Situ Orbis lib. III. cap. V. [4] Iliad Σ. v. 606. & Ξ. v. 200. Florus Histor. Rom. lib. I. cap. XIII. Rutilii Numat. Itin. [5] Strabo de Geogr. lib. I. p. 4, 9, &c. [6] Exodus cap. III. v. 3. [7] Stromat. lib. VI. p. 658. [8] Aristoteles lib. de Mundo c. III. Plinius Nat. Hist. lib. II. c. LXVI. LXVII. LXVIII. &c. M. Capella lib. VI. &c. &c. [9] Strabo Geogr. lib. passim. Dionysius Characenus passim. Mela de Situ Orbis lib. I. c. 1. & III. c. 1. Æthicus, Rufus Festus Avienus de Ora Marit. v. 390, &c. &c. [10] Johannes Tzetza variæ Histor. Chiliad. 8. Philostratus L. apud Photium, p. 1011. [11] Orpheus, Homerus, Cointus Smyrnæus, &c. fere omnes. [12] Fere omnes, uno ore. [13] Cosmas Ægyptus Cosmogr. Christian. lib. II. p. 131, &c. &c. [14] Vide infra N. 45. & Ricard. p. 12. XII. &c. [15] Æneid. lib. VIII. v. 727. B. Hieronymus ad Gerontiam sub fin. Plinius N. H. lib. XIX. c. I. Julius Celsus in vita Cæsaris, p. 44. [16] Servius Honoratus, ad loc. cit. Virgilii. [17] e XII. Panegyricis unus p. 265. Edit. Stephani. [18] Æthicus Cosmogr. p. 705. Isidorus Hisp. Orig. lib. XIV. c. VI. [19] Catullus in Cæsarem epigr. 30. v. 13. [20] Vet. Epigram. apud Scaligerum. [21] Apud Jornandem de Rebus Geticis. [22] XII. Panegyr. p. 258. [23] Sed vide Cæsar de Bello Gal. lib. V. c. XIII. [24] Pag. 1. [25] Caput de Brit. [26] In Cæsarem epigr. XXX. v. 4. [27] Ad Furium & Aur. epigr. XI. v. 12. [28] Ode XXXV. ad Fortunam. [29] Tom. V. p. 848. [30] Hegessipus lib. II. c. IX. [31] Ricard. p. 25. [32] Hegessipus. [33] De Bello Pharsal. lib. VIII. v. 442. [34] Lib. X. v. 456. [35] De Malii Theodosii Cons. v. 51 [36] Solinus Cap. de Britannia. [37] Vet. Poet. apud Scaligerum. [38] Isidorus Hisp. orig. lib. XIV. c. VI. e Virgilio Ecl. I. v. 67. [39] Alfredus apud Higdenum. [40] Vet. Poet. apud Scalig. [41] Ibid. [42] Lib. III. c. X. [43] Appianus in Præf. vide & Isidorum Hisp. vel potius Solinum apud Ricardum p. 101. XXI. [44] L. Florus lib. III. cap. X. [45] De Secundo Cons. Fl. Stilichonis v. 149. [46] Cosmogr. Christ. p. 113. [47] Lib. LX. p. 957. [48] Vet. Poet. apud Scalig. [49] Hegessipus. [50] Maximiano & Constantino dictus p. 258. [51] Ibid. [52] Vellejus Paterculus Histor. Rom. lib. II. [53] Panegyr. supra-laudatus p. 262. [54] Cap. II. p. 98. editionis Havn. [55] Lib. de Mundo. c. III. Plinius Nat. Hist. lib. III. cap. I.