"They were called Maurisi by the Greeks," said Strabo, "in the first century A.D., and Mauri by the Romans.

But the Romans likewise called the aboriginal tribes of North Africa, Moors, or Mauri, and some contend that Moors and Berbers are but two different names for the aboriginal tribes, the former being of Greek and the latter of African origin.

[10] In Latin, Mauri, Maurice, Maurici, Maurusci, and it is supposed, so called by the Greeks from their dark complexions.

The Chatti, Chauci, Mauri are overcome (chapters 8, 9).

Juvenal somewhere speaks of the withered hands of the Moors: manus ossea Mauri.