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  • One man wears his tunic to his heels, another is girt up as if for a race; Rufillus smells of perfumery, Gargonius of anything but scent; and so on -- and he cries out that when a fool tries to avoid a mistake he will run to any length in the opposite direction.

    Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

  • Hermogenes the fop, Pantolabus the trencherman, Gorgonius the goat-scented, Rufillus the pastille-perfumed, were derisive sobriquets, which, while ministering to the censoriousness of readers by names genuine or well understood, must have bitterly offended the men thus stigmatized or transparently indicated.

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • "Rufillus smells all perfumes, Gorgonius like a goat," and the most humorous of his pieces is that in which he ridicules the ignorance and impudence of a manoeuvring chatterer.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • There are but two Names remaining in the Villa of Roman Extraction j {viz.) the Rufil Family, pro - bably defcended from that Fop Rufillus recorded by Horace; but it is much departed from all idle Taffe

    Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects 1771

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