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Nilus supra dictus fluuius Aegypti appellatus est alio nomine Gyon, cuius origo est a Paradiso terrestri. Hi Nubij sunt Christiani, sed nigri, velut Aethiopes, vel Mauri.
He took prodigious pains to be accurate, and before he assaulted the prison system in It's Never Too Late to Mend, or the conduct of private lunatic asylums in Hard Cash, he had gathered and indexed huge volumes of information culled from every available source. These memoranda he called nigri loci.
The mirror was not unnaturally called in to aid; and that cabinet-counsellor pronounced me rather short, thick-set, with a cast of features fitter, I trust, for the bar than the ball not handsome enough for blushing virgins to pine for my sake, or even to invent sham cases to bring them to my chambers yet not ugly enough either to scare those away who came on real business dark, to be sure, but NIGRI SUNT HYACINTHI there are pretty things to be said in favour of that complexion.
Gignuntur in ea insula accipitres ita nigri, vt coruorum similitudinem mirum in modum exprimant, perdices autem et aquilæ sunt nigri coloris. The same in English. This land he called Prima vista, that is to say, First seene, because as I suppose it was that part whereof they had the first sight from sea.
The ladies, in their baths, made no scruple of admitting men amongst them, and moreover made use of their serving-men to rub and anoint them: "Inguina succinctus nigri tibi servus aluta Stat, quoties calidis nuda foveris aquis." They all powdered themselves with a certain powder, to moderate their sweats.
Virgil thus mentions it as one of the ingredients of the philter that Dido caused to be made for her previously to her committing suicide: "Falcibus et messæ ad Lunam quæruntur alienis Pubentes herbæ, nigri cum lacte veneni. Quæritur et nascentis equi in fronte revulsus Et matri præruptus amor."
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