Complexion of the roman emperors

[Urselius]

According to Suetonius Nero was malodorous, his hair light blonde and his eyes blue, Domitian was bald and ruddy. The Historia Augusta describes Lucius Verus as blond and he sprinkled gold-dust in his hair. When contemporary writers describe other physical attributes of emperors than pale colouring, such as a paunch, or baldness or spindly legs, then I think it is safe to conclude that the subject had more typical Mediterranean colouring.