Moors
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Moors · the nations of the Moors
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Moors, described as enemies of the King of Spain in the region.
and inasmuch as, if this edict be rigidly enforced against those persons to the letter, some inconveniences might follow, if they should escape to the Moors, our enemies, and make known to our neighbors the disposition of my forces, and thus show ways that they might be able to harm my dominion:
Adversus Judaeos
North African people named among the nations subject to Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
De Anima
A people characterized by Sallust as vain, cited as an example of national character.
Sallust strikes the Moors as vain and the Dalmatians as fierce;