P. Ticinius Mena
was the first person who introduced barbers into Italy from Sicily in the 454th year after the foundation of the city. (Varr. R. R. 2.11.10; Plin. Nat. 7.59.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.