Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Calamistrum

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Calamistrum

and Calamister. A curling-iron, so called from its resemblance to a reed (calamus), and used among the Romans as early as the time of Plautus (Curc. iv. 4, 21). It was sometimes employed by men, though such were considered effeminate. Figuratively, the word denotes an excess of literary ornament (Iul. 56).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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