Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rocky place or pit outside the walls of ancient Athens, into which criminals were thrown.
- n. The abyss; hell.
- n. Anything that swallows up or devours; the belly; an insatiable glutton or extortioner.
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“Iam verò coelestem habere materiam, nemo audebit dicere: Ne forte inde aliquis suspicetur, glaciem hanc barathrum, quod illi Historici affingunt, secum è coelo traxisse: Vel id coelo, quippe eiusdem materiæ cum glacie, commune esse, atque ita carcer damnatorum cum”
“Habet profectò Indiæ occidentalis mons quidam flammiuomus æquiores multò, quàm hic noster censores & historicos, minimè illic barathrum exædificantes: Cuius historiam, quia & breuis est, & non illepida, subijciam, ab Hieronimo Benzone Italo in”
“Iam ver� coelestem habere materiam, nemo audebit dicere: Ne forte inde aliquis suspicetur, glaciem hanc barathrum, quod illi Historici affingunt, secum � coelo traxisse: Vel id coelo, quippe eiusdem materi� cum glacie, commune esse, atque ita carcer damnatorum cum”
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“Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, there could be no safety for Athens.”
“Ergo ut praelocuti sumus, quomodo unumquodque dictum sit, consideremus ne forte per ignorantiam in barathrum decidamus erroris.”
“We gaze at the sky from the bottom of a savage granite _barathrum_, whence there is no escape but return through the chinks and over the crags of an Old-World convulsion.”
“The gallows perhaps is the English term most nearly corresponding to the barathrum, as commonly spoken of in the Athenian popular language.”
“In fine, when he once had opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, 2 there could be no safety for Athens.”
“When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens.”
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“It had been a saying of Aristides, "that if the Athenians desired their affairs to prosper, they ought to fling Themistocles and himself into the barathrum.”
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yarb Is this word of Entish origin? Jan 1, 2008
sionnach an insatiable glutton Jan 1, 2008