The toilet of a Roman lady involved an elaborate and very costly process. It commenced at night, when the face, supposed to have been tarnished by exposure, was overlaid with a poultice composed of boiled or moistened flour spread on with the fingers. Poppaean unguents sealed the lips, and the lady was profusely rubbed with Cerona ointment. In the morning, the poultice and unguents were washed off, a bath of asses' milk imparted a delicate whiteness to the skin, and the pale face was freshened and revived with enamel. The full eyelids, which the Roman lady still knows s0 well how to use, now suddenly raising them to reveal a glance of surprise, or of melting tenderness, now letting them drop like a veil over the lustrous eyes, - the full rounded eyelids were coloured within, and a needle, dipped in jetty dye, gave length and sphericity to the eyebrows. The forehead was encircled by a wreath, or fillet, fastened in the luxuriant hair, which rose in front in a pyramidal pile, formed of successive ranges of curls, and giving the appearance of more than ordinary height.