Re: Seeking info on Old Spanish

John Cowan nevesht:
>(It's interesting that "soap" is everywhere a borrowing, suggesting
>something
>interesting about the relative bathing habits of Germans and Romans!)
>
The Germans introduced Rome to soap, which was original quite strong and
used by the romans to turn their hair red. For bathing the romans and greeks
used olive oil to dissolve the dirt and grease and then scraped it off (and
the baths sold the accumulated scrapings for medicinal usage).
-Wayne Chevrier


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