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What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia!
1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!
The story about Phryne becomes more pointed if one realizes that the Latin phrase fucus facere means to play a trick and that the painted or fucused Phryne does just this on her friends.
1994, Annette Drew-Bear, Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage