Word: maeotic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue: "[Elizabeth Taylor's] complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as 'a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it.' " Please compare . . . Elegy on Cynthia of Sextus Propertius: "Lilies would not surpass my mistress for whiteness; 'tis as though maeotic snows were to strive with Spanish vermillion, or rose leaves floated amid stainless milk (utque rosae puro lacte natant folia)." Please remember Propertius lived circa 24 B.C., and besides, Cynthia, we are told, had yellow hair and black eyes. Could she have been the ecstatic publicity man's prototype...
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