So, the ancient Welsh had beards?

Or spoke in a language incomprehensible to the Greeks, sounding like nothing so much as "Bar bar bar" as other notions as to the origin of the word barbarian would have it.

The beard went in and out of fashion among the Romans (as presumably among the Greeks) as it does among modern cultures. Marcus Aurelius, Commodus' daddy and Maximus' fave emperor, is generally depicted wearing one his own se'f.

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