Julius Caeser was bald
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 A Roman Account
On the Life of the Caesars[1], in Latin De vita Caesarum, or as it is often known in English, The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. On the Life of the Caesars, which was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Hadrian's personal secretary, Suetonius, and is the largest among his surviving writings.
Says Julius Caeser Had a Comb-Over
Suetonius says that Caesar was semi-bald. Due to embarrassment regarding his premature baldness, Caesar combed his hair over and forward so as to hide this baldness:
"He was somewhat overnice in the care of his person, being not only carefully trimmed and shaved, but even having superfluous hair plucked out, as some have charged; while his baldness was a disfigurement which troubled him greatly, since he found that it was often the subject of the gibes of his detractors. Because of it he used to comb forward his scanty locks from the crown of his head, and of all the honors voted him by the senate and people there was none which he received or made use of more gladly than the privilege of wearing a laurel wreath at all times. "
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[1] Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Twelve Caesars XLV. tr. Robert Graves. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
[2] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article1820060.ece
On the Life of the Caesars. (2008, January 28). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 06:21, February 11, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=On_the_Life_of_the_Caesars&oldid=187490123
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