The reason for creating this topic is to help students in history to know the difference between the Moors of antiquity and the modern Moors (Eureurasian mixed bloods). Eureurasian Historians confuse the Modern Moors with the Moors of ancient times (400 BCE to 800 AD) so they can steal the history of people of Kmtyw descent (Black people).
The Ancient Roman Satirist Juvenal mentions a Moor so black that one would be afraid to meet him at midnight.
uos aliam potatis aquam. tibi pocula cursor Gaetulus dabit aut nigri manus ossea Mauri et cui per mediam nolis occurrere noctem, cliuosae ueheris dum per monumenta Latinae
''Your cups will be handed you by a running footman from Gaetulia, or the bony hand of some Moor, so black that you would rather not meet him at midnight, while riding through the tombs on the steep Latin way.'' Juvenal satire v 52-55
Silius Italicus in his famous poem called the Punica (the second Punic war) mentions on several occasions that the Moors were black.
|leatior at circa facies, agitata ferarum agmina venatu et caelata mapalia fulgent. nec procul usta cutem nigri soror horrida mauri assuetas mulcet patrio sermone leaenas.|436-440
"hard by was a happier scene- herds of wild beasts chased by hunters, and huts, carved in shinning metal. Not far away the savage black skinned Moorish sister that soothed lionesses, and her companions, with her native speech."
|iamque in palantes ac versos terga feroces pugnabant itali, subitus cum mole pavenda terrificis Maurus prorumpit tunger in armis. Nigra viro membra, et furvi iuga celsa trahebant cornipedes, totusque novae formidinis arte concolor aequabat liventia currus equorumterga; nec erectis similes imponere cristis cessarat pennas, aterque tegebat amictus.|
''Tunger, the moor, a terrible giant, rushed forward to battle. His body was black, and his lofty chariot was drawn by black horses; and the chariot- a new device to strike terror- was the same color all over as the dusky backs of the steeds; and on his lofty crest he had been careful to set a plume of the same hue; and the garment he wore was black also.'' punica vii 680- 685
sedeone an montibus erro, dum mecum Garamas et adustus corpora Maurus dividit italas|
"Am i to do nothing, or to move from height to height, while Garamantians and burnt skinned moors share Italy with me" 266-268 Punica VIII
atque incocti corpora mauri" lib xvii 632 punica
Silius Italicus was a contemporary of the Great Moorish General Lusius Quietus who crushed the Jews in the "Kitos war" (named after him) and considered Romes greatest general. The reasons for pointing this out is to highlight the racial makeup of the Moors during the time of Lusius quietus proving his race was black.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius the Roman poet and Rhetoric teacher had a grandmother who was said to be called "Mooress" because of her dark complexion.
Aemiliam nunc fare aviam, pia cura nepotis, coniunx praedicto quae fuit Arborio. Nomen huic ioculare datum, cute fusca quod olim aequales inter maura vocata fuit. Sed non atra animo, qui clarior esset olore et non calcata qui nive candidior. Et non deliciis ignoscere prompta pudendis ad perpendiculum seque suosque habuit. Haec me praereptum cunis et ab ubere matris blanda sub austeris inbuit inperiis. Tranquillos aviae cineres praestate, quieti aeternum manes, si pia verba loquor.
Aemilia corinthia maura, my grandmother: now must a grandson's duteous affection tell or aemillia, my grandmother, who was spouse of that arborius named above. Her name was given her in play, because for her dark complexion she was called Maura (Mooress) in old days by her girlfriends. But was not dark in her soul, which was whiter than a swan and brighter than untrodden snow. She was not ready to overlook shameful indulgences, but kept herself rigidly upright and her household as well. When I was torn too soon from my cradle and my mother's breast, kindly was her early training though hid beneath stern rule. Ye ever restful shades, grant peace to my grandmother's ashes, if I utter righteous prayer. Ausonius: Books I-XVII By Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Flavius Cresconius Corippus in his poem Iohannis ("Tale of John") or De bellis Libycis ("On the Libyan war") he describes the Moors as black skinned.
Cognata tenebris, Maura uidebatur facies , nigroque colore Horrida "Akin to darkness, its face seemed Moorish, fearful in its black color. Lib I. 244-245
Crudaque sub nigra calcantur Maurica planta. "Their black feet tread upon cruel Moorish sandals" Lib. II 119-153
Concolor illa sedet cum nigris horrida natis. Coruorum ueluti uideas nigrescere pullos lib. V 92-94
Procopius of Caesarea in his book the History of the wars mentions the black skin of the Moors when talking about a white skinned group in Kmt.
ὡς ἔμπροσθεν ἐρρήθη, ξύμμαχος ἦλθε. τούτου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼλέγοντος ἤκουσα ὡς ὑπὲρ τὴν χώραν ἧς αὐτὸς ἄρχοι, οὐδένες ἀνθρώπωνοἰκοῦσιν,ἀλλὰ γῆ ἔρημος ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διήκει, ταύτης τε ἐπέκειναἄνθρωποί εἰσιν οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ Μαυρούσιοι μελανόχροοι, ἀλλὰ λευκοί τε λίαν τὰσώματα καὶ τὰς κόμας ξανθοί. ταῦτα μὲν δὴ ὧδέ πη ἔχει
"and I have heard this man say that beyond the country which he ruled there was no habitation of men, but desert land extending to a great distance, and that beyond that there are men, not black skinned like the moors, but very white in body and fair-haired, so much, then, for these things." Procopius: history of the wars, IV. Xiii. 29
According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar had a love affair with the Moorish queen Eunoe and that he would have followed Cleopatra to Ethiopia.
Dilexit et reginas, inter quas Eunoen Mauram Bogudis uxorem, cui maritoque eius plurima et immensa tribuit, ut Naso scripsit; sed maxime Cleopatram, cum qua et convivia in primam lucem saepe protraxit et eadem nave thalamego paene Aethiopia tenus Aegyptum penetravit, nisi exercitus sequi recunited snakessset, quam denique accitam in urbem non nisi maximis honoribus praemiisque auctam remisit filiumque natum appellare nomine suo passus est.
"He had love affairs with queens too, including Eunoe the Moor, wife of Bogudes, on whom, as well as on her husband, he bestowed many splendid presents, as Naso writes; but above all with Cleopatra, with whom he often feasted until daybreak, and he would have gone through Egypt with her in her state-barge as far as Ethiopia, had not his soldiers refused to follow him. Finally he called her to Rome and did not let her leave until he had ladened her with high honours and rich gifts, and he allowed her to give his name to the child which she bore." Julius Caesar, 52, Lives of Caesar by Suetonius
In The Historia Augusta it is pointed out that the Moorish word for Elephant (Caesai) could be the etymology for Caesar.
Et quoniam de Caesarum nomine in huius praecipue vita est aliquid disputandum, qui hoc solum nomen indeptus3 (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Aelius*.html#note3) est, Caesarem vel ab elephanto, qui lingua Maurorum caesai dicitur in proelio caeso, eum qui primus sic appellatus est doctissimi viri et eruditissimi putant dictum
Now whereas I must needs tell something of the name of the Caesars, particularly in a life of the man who received this name alone of the imperial titles, men of the greatest learning and scholarship aver that he who first received the name of Caesar was called by this name, either because he slew in battle an elephant,which in the Moorish tongue is called caesai. Historia Augusta 2:3
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Denarius of Julius Caesar showing an Elephant. Some scholars believe this could be a reference from Caesar's name meaning Elephant or it could be a reference to the Elephant Caesar used in Britain to scare the savages who (like most northern eureurasiaans of that time) never seen an elephant before.
Martial in his book Epigrams describes a Moor's hair as being Tortus (woolly or kinky)
Hic qui retorto crines maurus incedit subolem fatetur esse se coci santrae.
''This one who struts with woolly hair, a moor, confesses he is the off spring of santra the cook;'' The epigrams of martial book vi xxxix 6-7
Martial uses the same word Tortus to describe Ethiopian hair
atque aliter tortis crinibus aethiopes
"with kinky haired Ethiopians" Martial epigrammata 696 (lib. Spect.iii) 9-10
Virgil in his book Moretum describes an Kmtyw woman's hair as Tortus (curly or kinky)
'erat unica custos, afra genus, tota patriam testante figura, torta comam, labroque tumens et fusca colore''
"Of Kmtyw race, her whole figure bears proof of her country. Her hair tightly curled (Tortus), her lips thick (Tumens), her color dark (Fuscus)"[31.35] virgil moretum
The Great Berber revolt (739 AD – 743 AD) was an Kmtyw rebellion against the aAmw invaders of North Kmt. According to the Chronicle of 754, these Kmtyws (Berbers) who participated in the revolt were blacks. It is pointed out that the color of their skin terrified the horses of the aAmws. (This Chronicle was a contemporary account of the rebellion)
"sed Maurorum hoc recognoscens multitude in pugnam nudi, prependiculis tantum modo ante pudendis precinct e montana prosiliunt ilico. Sed ubi super fluvium nauam acriter utrique confligunt in prelio, tetrum colorem equis pulcrioribus demostrando et albis dentibus confricando equi egyptii, statim resilient fugiendo. Sed illi dum amplius impression em faciunt desperando, equites iterum aAmwici nec mora ob cutis colorem dissiliendo tergum cum sua et ascensorum internicione appetunt expavescendo."
They (the Syrian aAmws) decided on their own initiative to hasten to the sea, crossing the territory of the moors to attack Tangiers with their swords. But the army of the Moors, realizing this, immediately burst forth from the mountains to the battle naked, girded only with loin-cloths covering their shameful parts. When they joined each other in battle at the Nava river, the Egyptian horses immediately recoiled in flight, as the Moors on their beautiful horses revealed their repulsive color and gnashed their white teeth. Despairing, they launched another attack, the aAmw cavalry again instantly recoiling due to the color of the moor' skin." Chronicle of 754 or Isidorus Pacensis
Afonso X El Sabio and Rodrigo de jimenez de Rada both described these early Moorish (Berber) rebels as black skinned, and kinky haired, with white teeth.
Et los revellados eran negros como la pez, et avien los cabellos crespos et los dientes mui blancos.
and the rebels (Moors) were black as pitch, had kinky hair and very white teeth.?
Primera cronica general by Afonso X El Sabio
Sed ut maurorum rebellio hoc percepit, pannis circum pendentibus duntaxat pudendis obtectis, nudi prosiliunt á montanis, nigri specie, crispi crine, albi dentes; cumque ad fluuium qui mafan dicitur advenissent, utroque exercitu ex opposite collocato. Mauri tetrum colorem equis pulcrioribus venustantes, & albis dentibus subridendo, adversi exercitus multitudinem deterrebans.|
"However, as he learned about the rebellion of the moors, they wore clothes just hanging around their private parts, jumping out of the mountains half naked, black skinned, wooly hair, and white teeth;?
Historia aAmwium by Rodrigo jimenez de Rada or Archbishop Don Roderic of Toledo (1170-1247)
Marcus Manilius the roman poet points out that the name Moor simply describes the people of Mauretania. (Mauretania in ancient times simply means Negro land)
et Mauretania nomen oris habet titulumque suo fert ipsa colore.
the Moors derive their name from their faces, and their identity is proclaimed by the color of their skins.
Marcus Manilius (1st century) Astronomica Book IV (line 744) 4.724
Isidore of Seville highlights that the etymology of Moor is black
Mauros niger : Graeci enim nigrum μαῦρον "Moor is black, for the Greeks call black Mauron."
Xii 1:55 Etymologies of Isidore of seville
Isidore lived 40 years before Tarik ibn ziyad the Moorish conqueror of Spain.
"Mauros habet tetra nox corporum: Gallos candida cutis:" "Black night possesses the bodies of the Moors; the Gauls have white skins;"
xix 23: 7 Etymologies of Isidore of seville