Learn, when sleep has let go your tender joints, in what manner your faces can shine bright. Strip from its covering of chaff the barley which Lybian farmers have sent on ships. Let an equal measure of vetch be moistened in ten eggs: but let the stripped barley weigh two pounds. When this has dried in the blowing breezes, have the slow ass break it with the rough millstone; therewith also grind the first horns that fall from a lively stag (let the sixth part of a solid as1 be added). And now when it is mixed with the dusty powder, immediately sift all of it in hollow sieves. Add twelve narcissus-bulbs without their skins, and let a strenuous hand pound them on pure marble. Let gum and Tuscan seed weigh a sixth part of a pound2. To this let nine times as much honey be added. Whoever will treat her face with such a paint will shine lighter in her mirror. Nor hesitate to roast pale lupin-seeds, and likewise fry beans that puff out the body. With fair distinction, let both have weights of six pounds, and give them to black millstones to be crushed into pieces. Do not let white lead nor foam of red nitrite be wanting, nor iris which comes from the earth of Illyricum. Give them equally to be subdued by the strong arms of youths, but when ground their right weight will be one ounce. A remedy taken from the querulous nest of birds removes blemishes from the face: they call it halcyon-cream. If you ask with what weight thereof I am content, that which an ounce divided into two parts weighs. So that they may mix and be properly smeared on the body, add Attic honey from its golden combs. Although incense pleases the gods and their angry powers, it must not all be offered upon kindled fires. When you have mixed incense with nitre that scrapes off warts, see that on both sides of the balance there is a exactly a third of a pound. Add 3/4 pound of gum stripped of its bark and a moderate cube of rich myrrh. When you have ground these up, sift them through close-set meshes: the powder must be settled by pouring on honey. It has been found useful to add fennel to the fragrant myrrh, (let the fennel weigh five scruples, the myrrh nine), and take one handful of dried roses, and virile frankincense with the salt of Ammon. Thereupon pour the juice which barley makes: let the frankincense weigh the same as the rose-leaves and salt together. Though it is smeared on your soft countenance for a short time, much color remains on all your face. I have seen one who pounded poppies moistened with cold water, and rubbed them on her tender cheeks.