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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by huy60: Manilius quote has been debunked. [/QUOTE]what exactly about the Manilius quote was debunked? alTakruri's interpretation of ethnic groups mentioned in this Manilius poem is the following, from lightest to darkest: -Germans - French - Spanish - Romans - Greeks - Syrians -Mauritanians -Afrorum (?) -Egyptians -Indians -Ethiopians _______________________________________________ Here is the quote, a translation of Manilius that some people didn't like: [i]The Ethiopians stain the world and depict a race of men steeped in darkness; less sun-burnt are the natives of India; the land of Egypt, flooded by the Nile, darkens bodies more mildly owing to the inundation of its fields: it it a country nearer to us and its moderate climate imparts a medium tone. – Manilius, Astronomica 4.724[/i] ^^^ regardless if some people didn't like the wording, in the so called "afrocentric" position as expressed by alTakruri , he does not debunk the order of skin complexion dark to light as per these ethniticies and Djehuti screaming "it was taken out of context" doesn't change that >It's the same order , much ado about nothing this particular translation says Ethiopians are the darkest, next Indians, next Egyptians and that is exactly what alTakruri said. So there was no "debunk" on the bottom line order he just didn't like the translation of particular words. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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