people
Moors
also: Mauris
The Mauri of North Africa, famed as javelin-throwers and archers.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.22 Moorish javelins
The throwing-spears of the Mauri of North Africa, needless to the upright man.
- The Odes §3.10 Moorish
'No gentler than the Moorish snakes,' she ignores her suppliant.