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[QUOTE]Originally posted by dana marniche: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [qb] Snowden: Black Studies, p 282 http://books.google.com/books?id=lufna2PxouAC [i]"If in this case Martial is not using the word Maurus loosely, the phrase Maurus retorto crine Maurus may indicate the descendant of a Negro-White cross, i.e. one with skin color of a Maurus and the hair of an Aethiopia" [/i] ____________________________ 12. ] [/qb][/QUOTE]Do you mean like how Juvenal, Platus, St. Jerome, Claudian, Diodorus Siculus, St. Isidore of Seville, Procopius, Corippus using it with words like Nigri or Niger and Ethiopian. Martial used the phrase woolly hair "like a Moor". What does it matter if the person he was talking about wasn't a Moor. :p No one above metioned the Maurusioi as a Negro- white cross. Keep hope alive though! lol! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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