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Re: mantle of the leveller

Posted By: Gothmog (ool-43562621.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: 2/11/2003 at 8:05 p.m.

In Response To: Re: mantle of the leveller (Seraph)

: Of course, with expressions like ..."Coming into the
: purple"..they did mean something.

: Purple, for whatever reason was expensive dye, so only
: royalty (Imperialty?) wore it, such as the Roman
: Emperors.

: True, not all royalty wore purple, but its not just a
: made up expression because some King once liked
: wearing purple or something.

: (Out nitpick -that-, O master of Sarcasim)

: Seraph

purple, was expensive, because it could only be gotten from one gland inside of an oyster, and the only oysters thay used came from persia.(about 1000 oysters for one ounce of dye)

i out nitpicked it, but i'll let you both off this time.

Gothmog

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