Pelasgus- You speak beyond my credence, Strangers, claiming Argive birth but more like Libyans you seem…or the Nile may foster such a likeness of the camel-backed nomads I have heard neighbor the Ethiopians…
-The Suppliants, Aeschylus (525-455 BCE)
The King of Argos almost got it right about these Danaïd strangers, Greek by blood but Egyptian by their place of birth and rough dress. And because of the camel riding tunics and drawstring trousers the drovers wore when they went downtown with me, to Cairenes they looked nothing like their own galabiyya-clad peasant countrymen. Might they be Libyan? Ethiopian? Without his hippo-hide whip in hand, few on Midān Tahrīr knew KhairAllah to be from Dar al-Kababish.