>>15488115>clean shaven was only a fad during most of the republic timesWrong. Clean shaven was the default in Roman society, and beards were specifically viewed with suspicion for being barbarian. When Claudius gave senatorial status to a lot of Gauls their beards were mentioned repeatedly in angry responses. It took until Hadrian for beards to become a thing in Roman society overnight, but even then it was only in the eastern provinces.
