Kitap 3
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So too we are told of Naevius that he wrote two plays in prison, the Soothsayer and the Leon, when by reason of his constant abuse and insults aimed at the leading men of the city, after the manner of the Greek poets, he had been imprisoned at Rome by the triumvirs. The triumviri capitales, police magistrates, in charge of the public prisons. And afterwards he was set free by the tribunes of the commons, when he had apologized for his offences and the saucy language with which he had previously assailed many men.
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That it was an inherited custom of Publius Africanus and other distinguished men of his time to shave their beard and cheeks.
