George Leo Haydock, on Neh 13:25

“And I chid them, and laid my curse upon them. And I beat some of them, and shaved off their hair, and made them swear by God that they would not give their daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for their sons, nor for themselves, saying:”

“Curse, or excommunicated them, (Calmet) the guilty parents. (Haydock) — Shaved. Hebrew and Septuagint, “plucked off their hair,” by the roots, for greater torment. Sometimes quicklime was then sprinkled on the head, (Calmet) as adulterers were treated at Athens. Schol. Aristoph.[Aristophanes?] — King Artaxerxes changed this punishment, and ordered that his officers should be forbidden to wear the tiara instead. Domitian caused the hair and beard of Apollonius to be shaven. (Philost. iii. 14.) (Calmet) — That they. Hebrew, “Ye shall not,” &c.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.