ALIPILARIUS, or ALIPILUS, in Roman Antiquity, a
servant belonging to the baths, whose business it was, by
means of waxen plasters, and an instrument called colcella,
to take off the hair from the arm-pits, arms, legs, &c., this
being deemed a point of cleanliness.
ALIPILARIUS
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