10-17-2011, 07:44 PM
Quote:I keep my full beard and tell anyone who asks that I'm not a slave to fashion. Someone, IMO, would have been bearded. There's always the oddball.
Or one could tell people that one is in mourning for a fallen comrade. Or for the State. Cato the Younger, according to Plutarch, stopped shaving after he left Italy with Pompey during the Civil Wars...
M. Caecilius M.f. Maxentius - Max C.
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
Secretary of the Ricciacus Frënn (http://www.ricciacus.lu/)
Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur
- Q. Ennius, Annales, Frag. XXXI, 493
Secretary of the Ricciacus Frënn (http://www.ricciacus.lu/)