ext_6849 ([identity profile] amedia.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] amedia 2009-03-06 04:53 pm (UTC)

It's something along the lines of "a serious armpit-smell is living in your hairy armpits" - "hircus" literally means "goat," but they also used it to describe that particular smell. The Romans were even pickier than our culture about armpit hair - there were armpit-pluckers who worked at the baths for both men and women.

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