[533] ἀκρόκομοι: i.e. their hair was bound in a knot on top of the head, perhaps like that of the American Indians. cf. apud Suevos, usquead canitiem, horrentem capillum retro sequuntur, ac saepe in ipso solo vertice religant Tac. Germ. 38. See on 2.11.
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