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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sudaniya: The word melanchroes (not melas) was used to describe the ancient Egyptians and has been rightly translated as black, much to your chagrin. [/QUOTE]The suffix chroes/chros means skin, while melan/melas refers to a dark colour range; it is not limited to black. And the first appearance of the word melanchroos in classical literature (Homer) is describing Odysseus (a native Greek from Ithaca), not a black. To quote the classicist W.E.Gladstone- "Oyusseus, on his restoration to beauty by Athene, becomes melanchroos (Od. xvi. 171). The melanchroos [p.377] of his herald, in Od. xix. 245, does not seem to bear any different sense. Homer's [b]melas means dark rather than black[/b], and is itself but indefinite; we are obliged to take these words as referring to an [b]olive complexion[/b]." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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