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Gymnosophists

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Gymnosophists
ancient Indian philosophers forsook clothing. [Asian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 396]
See : Nudity


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However, the gymnosophists at his court, led by Sisimithres, who brought Charicleia out of Ethiopia into Greece as a young girl, believe otherwise: "'Carry out this unhallowed sacrifice which the ancestral usages of Ethiopian custom make inevitable.
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