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Friday, September 28, 2018
Nose Hair
Sidonius, Letters 1.2.2 (to Agricola; on the Visigothic King Theodoric II; tr. W.B. Anderson):
Every day there is a clipping of the bristles that sprout beneath the nostril-cavities.
pilis infra narium antra fructicantibus cotidiana succisio.