Hedid notknowthat it was alreadybehindhim, somewhere back inthatvast obscurity beyondthecity, wherethe dark fieldsoftherepublicrolled onunder the night.
He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where thedarkfields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Perhaps the reason is that those who toiled all day in thefields became dark while the aristocratic elite, protected from the sun, remained pristine white.