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    Nocturnal Undergarments in Ancient Rome
    Nocturnal Undergarments in Ancient Rome
    Posted by: Makarios on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 12:00 PM
    History, Legend & Myth By Martin Gardiner

    The subject had remained shrouded in the mists of antiquity until it was tackled by Neil Adkin, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln – who shone some much needed light into this once murky area with findings published in an article for the journal The Classical World. 93 (2000) 619-20

    The professor turned-up answers in a passage from St. Jerome’s Contra Vigilantium – in which he (St. Jerome) reproaches theologian Vigilantius who has been turfed out of bed, somewhat drunk, during a calamity:

    “ … unde et in hac provincia cum subitus terrae motus noctis medio omnes de somno excitasset, tu prudentissimus et sapientissimus mortalium nudus orabas et referebas nobis Adam et Evam de paradiso: et illi quidem apertis oculis erubuerunt, nudos se esse cernentes, et verenda texerunt arborum foliis: tu et tunica et fide nudus, subitoque timore perterritus, et aliquid habens nocturnaec rapulae,s anctorum oculis obscenam partem corporis ingerebas, ut tuam indicares prudentiam.”



    Read the complete article: Improbable Research
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