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The Zulus and the Spartans
got to get husbands, the married women to keep theirs”. “Questionnees”, writes
Delegorgue177 of the Zulu girls, “sur la nullite de leur mode de se vetir, ces jeunes filles
repondent qu’une intombu (i. e., jeune fille) doit se montre telle qu’elle est, afin de trouver
un homme”.
Other coincidences — for such they are: nothing more — subordinated, if to any law,
to the principle “e similibus similia hunt”, the reader may establish for himself between
the Zulus and the Spartans. Those noted warrant me, I believe, in bringing the two
peoples into juxtaposition. They cannot blind us to the differences. The Zulu smeared
his body with grease and polished it off with red ochre; the Spartan softened his skin
with delicate oil and scraped his hard muscles with the strigil.
177 Delegorgue, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 227.
The Zulus and the Spartans
got to get husbands, the married women to keep theirs”. “Questionnees”, writes
Delegorgue177 of the Zulu girls, “sur la nullite de leur mode de se vetir, ces jeunes filles
repondent qu’une intombu (i. e., jeune fille) doit se montre telle qu’elle est, afin de trouver
un homme”.
Other coincidences — for such they are: nothing more — subordinated, if to any law,
to the principle “e similibus similia hunt”, the reader may establish for himself between
the Zulus and the Spartans. Those noted warrant me, I believe, in bringing the two
peoples into juxtaposition. They cannot blind us to the differences. The Zulu smeared
his body with grease and polished it off with red ochre; the Spartan softened his skin
with delicate oil and scraped his hard muscles with the strigil.
177 Delegorgue, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 227.