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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: Astronomer by the Roman poet Manilius Manilius, a Roman poet, was a shadowy figure; he is sometimes said to have been a freed slave of Syrian origin, but the details of his life are unknown. Astronomicon is the only known work ascribed to Manilius. The text indicates that the author lived in Rome under Emperor Augustus (reigned 27 BCE-14 CE) or Tiberius (14-37 CE). The work is a kind of science poem on the astrology of the zodiac and the constellations, written in an age when astronomy and astrology had not yet been distinguished from one another. Although early manuscripts of this work have been lost, a number of variant texts have survived. The work consists of five books, but the last one is seemingly unfinished. For those interested in astrology/astronomy the entire latin text work can be found in Google books for free. But to this particular topic, culled and distorted and disseminated by historical revisionists, here again is the accurate poetic exert:[/QUOTE]_________no revision necessary: __________________________________________ Stained the [b]Ethiopians[/b] they figure the world and with the [b]darkness[/b] _____________________________________ pouring the nations of men, to have little parched [b]India[/b] produces a [b]moderate[/b] to the contents of the [b]middle[/b] makes. _________________________________________ We now draw near the [b]Egyptian[/b] , the Nile, Earth and swimming blacken the bodies of [b]more gently[/b] watered fields thereof . no revision necessary it's a progression. First we have the Ethiopians, they are "blackened" the darkest, Then we have the Indians who are moderately "blackened", not literally blacked but in actuality brown. Then we have the Egyptians who are even more gently browned than the Indians. examples: [IMG]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n-wOBkP-QaU/0.jpg[/IMG] _______________________________________^^^^gently "blackened" (browned) . [IMG]http://www.oldandsold.com/a1photos/egyptian-painting.jpg[/IMG] ______AFTER______BEFORE [QUOTE]Originally posted by lamin: [qb] We must recall too that by the time of the Roman occupation of Egypt there were long extant colonies of Greeks who had settled in Egypt and then came the Romans who established Egypto-Roman dynasties that lasted for centuries. Thus the lightening process of Lower Egypt had long begun by Manilius's time. [/qb][/QUOTE]maybe [/QB][/QUOTE]
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