re: #496 iceweasel
An invented category.
We need Cato for this, but I have heard that race as we know it now wasn’t a category in the ancient world— not in the same way.
And I can tell you for certain that in the UK and US it’s employed very differently.
I can tell you that in the ancient world being called a Cushite (i.e. from Ethiopia) was a comment on how beautiful you were.