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Re: mantle of the leveller
Posted By: Gothmog (ool-43562621.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: 2/12/2003 at 1:37 p.m.
In Response To: Re: mantle of the leveller (Doom)
: I will, thank you, Seraphy. ;) And I know about it's
: originThat's exactly the reason I picked it as an
: example. It doesn't mean that you're coming into, for
: instance, into a purple room. It's not meant
: literally. It means that you're becoming royalty,
: coming into your birthright; since purple was the
: color associated with royalty in Europe, the
: expression makes sense, yet it, too, is not meant
: literally. And the Romans weren't very into purple...
: they seem to have preferred the color red. I can't
: remember for sure, but I think it wasn't until the
: days of Charlemagne that purple started becoming a dye
: highly desired by those in elevated positions.
: dm!
yes, the romans definately waned purple for anybody holding political office. although the togas were not solid purple, the border of purple signified that you were a senator.
now, back to myth...
Gothmog
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