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From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: Aristotle and Pliny on long hair

>Dear list,
>here is a question that I received from medieval historian (the
>translation of the German text is my own):
>Aristotle and Pliny report that long-haired men have more virility
>and that loss of hair and baldness are connected with loss of
>semen.
>
>If have not found explicit references for this opinion. Who can help?
>I will pass the answers along to her.
>
>Thank you in advance
>U.S.
>PD Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer
>Institut fuer Alte Sprachen - Latein
>Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
>http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/home.html

For what it's worth, I've checked calv- and genitur- in Pliny via the PHI
disk, with no success. Semen turned up about 400 occurrences, which looked
all to be plant seed (I stopped looking about halfway through to help a
student).

James Lawrence Peter Butrica
Department of Classics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914


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