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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Troll Patrol: [QB] It's clear the boy never read the actual text in its entirety, but merely cited it from a second source.looooooooooooool [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b]but the worst is the White One." [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b]but the worst is the White One." [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b]but the worst is the White One." [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b]but the worst is the White One." [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b]but the worst is the White One." [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One [QUOTE]Originally posted by cassiterides: [qb] ^ retard... Check p. 443 (iv. 5f). It explains what the Niger cognomen means. ''In stature Niger was tall, in appearance attractive; and his hair grew back in a graceful way toward the crown of his head. His voice was so penetrating that when he spoke in the open he could be heard •a thousand paces away, if the wind were not against him. His countenance was dignified and always somewhat ruddy; 6 [b]his neck was so black that many men say that he was called Niger on this account. The rest of his body, however, was very white [/b] and he was inclined to be fat. He was fond of wine, sparing in his use of food, and as for intercourse with women, he abstained from it wholly save for the purpose of begetting children'' Pescennius Niger just had a tanned neck. quote: ''The rest of his body, however, was very white'' [/qb][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Read it and weep.. lol[/QUOTE]As the story continues... 8 Now when the confusion in the state was at its height, inasmuch as it was made known that there were three several emperors, Septimius Severus, Pescennius Niger, and Clodius Albinus, the priest of the Delphic Apollo was asked which of them as emperor would prove of most profit to the state, whereupon, it is said, he gave voice to a Greek verse as follows: [b]"Best is the Dark One, the African good, [/b][i]but the worst is the White One."[/i] p4492 And in this response it was clearly understood that [b]Niger was meant by the Dark One, Severus by the African, [/b]and Albinus by the White One. 3 Thereupon the curiosity of the questioners was aroused, and they asked who would really win the empire. To this the priest replied with further verses somewhat as follows: "Both of the Black and the White shall the life-blood be shed all untimely; Empire over the world shall be held by the native of Carthage." p459 6 "Glorious Niger stands here, the dread of the soldiers of Egypt,Faithful ally of Thebes, willing a golden age. Loved by the kings and the nations of earth, and by Rome the all golden,Dear to the Antonines, aye, dear to the Empire too. Black is the surname he bears, and black is the statue we've fashioned,Thus do surname and hue, hero and marble, agree." http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Pescennius_Niger*.html http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Septimius_Severus*.html http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Clodius_Albinus*.html [IMG]http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/1472/ml46ik.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] The University's Director of Archaeological Museums, Lindsay Allason-Jones, who has organized an exhibition of the Museum's Romano-African artefacts to coincide with Black History Month, says: [b]'From the evidence we have here, it is clear that colour was no bar to the status an individual could achieve in the Roman Empire'...[/b] [b]“Africans have been present in Europe from classical times. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries Roman soldiers of African origin served in Britain, and some stayed after their military service ended. [/b] According to the historians Fryer, Edwards and Walvin, in the 9th century Viking fleets raided North Africa and Spain, captured Black people, and took them to Britain and Ireland. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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