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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Hey guys, I have been going over the Manilius quote with an Italian friend of mine, and I think I have the most accurate translation yet. It took us a while to figure out the exact grammar since apparently the form of writing was poetic as most writings were in those times. From the incomplete snippet lyinass and other Euronuts cite: [i]Aethiopes maculant orbem tenebrisque figurant perfusas hominum gentes; minus India tostos progenerat; tellusque natans Aegyptia Nilo lenius irriguis infuscat corpora campis iam propior mediumque facit moderata tenorem.[/i] Ethiopians stain the circle (globe) with their darkest figures. Immersed with races of men less burnt India has produced. The earth inundated by the Egyptian Nile, are more gently darkened bodies of the watered field. We now draw near the moderate tenor (climate or condition) of the middle... You must remember that back in ancient times the Greco-Romans perceived the world as a flat circle. As for the very last sentence, the Greco-Romans considered the Mediterranean as being the middle or center of the world in lattitude for them. The Egyptians were still a dark (black) race but one living along the southern edges of it closer to the Romans themselves. As for the rest the Euronuts love to leave out: [i]..Phoebus harenosis Afrorum pulvere terris exsiccat populos, et Mauretania nomen oris habet titulumque suo fert ipsa colore.[/i] Bright (sunny) African and sandy dust of the earth drieth up the people, and the name of Mauritania, a label his mouth bears has the very color. This part here is interesting because it claims that the native people themselves used the name Mauritania or Maure. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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