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  • And though it is true that the protracted Greek confrontation with the Persians created the first “East-West” division in the European mind, it is also true that the Greek word barbaros, with all its freight of later associations, was not a pejorative.

    East is East 2007

  • And though it is true that the protracted Greek confrontation with the Persians created the first “East-West” division in the European mind, it is also true that the Greek word barbaros, with all its freight of later associations, was not a pejorative.

    East is East 2007

  • And though it is true that the protracted Greek confrontation with the Persians created the first “East-West” division in the European mind, it is also true that the Greek word barbaros, with all its freight of later associations, was not a pejorative.

    East is East 2007

  • The word barbaros, we perhaps do not need to be reminded, originally described the incomprehensible speech of any foreign tongue.

    Laudator Temporis Acti 2009

  • In the time of his predecessor several had taken place, and on these occasions it was remembered that the troops, instead of going abroad to search for the "barbaros," shut themselves up in the garrison till the latter were gone clear out of the valley, after having carried off all the cattle they could collect!

    The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

  • The Romans of the late Republic and hte Empire were, at least by courtesy, regarded as civilized and not barbaros by their Greek subjects.

    Dr. Fleming on slavery papabear 2008

  • The Romans of the late Republic and hte Empire were, at least by courtesy, regarded as civilized and not barbaros by their Greek subjects.

    Archive 2008-12-14 papabear 2008

  • Quando ergo ingressi sumus inter illos barbaros, visum fuit mihi, vt dixi superius, quod ingrederer aliud seculum.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Quando ergo ingressi sumus inter illos barbaros, visum fuit mihi, vt dixi superius, quod ingrederer aliud seculum.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Tertium est fertilitas locorum ipsius provinciae, cujus pinguedo allicit barbaros et externos in praedam.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

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