Caesar\'s hair colour

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Read my post more carefully Byron. You will see that I said that I had never read of him having an unhealthy look before. My main point was to point out that the word 'candida' would normally indicate a brilliant white. It is where we get the word 'candidate' from, as the candidates for magistrates positions under the Roman republic and early empire had their togas whitened with pipe clay before giving speeches in order to give them a brilliant white hue to make them more striking to voters. The brilliant white of their togas led to them being known as 'candidates'. Therefore, mention of the word 'candida', if it referred to a physical characteristic, and if meant literally, must indicate his hair colour. After all, what other part of the human body can go a brilliant white in colour? If it was not meant literally, then we must search for the next most likely explanation for using the word for a brilliant white.

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