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calamistratus

calamistratus, curled with the curling-iron, crisped, curled

călămistrātus, a, um, adj. [calamister],
  • curled with the curling-iron, crisped, curled (of men, a reproach for effeminacy; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 100): cinaedus, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 37 (627): coma, Cic. Sest. 8, 18: saltator, id. post Red. in Sen. 6, 13.—Of fops: pueri cincinnatuli et calamistrati, Hier. Ep. 130, 19; so Ambros. Ep. 4, 15.

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