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  • The word barbarus in Renaissance Italy meant a person who spoke with a German accent.

    Powell's Books: Overview 2008

  • The word barbarus in Renaissance Italy meant a person who spoke with a German accent.

    Powell's Books: Overview 2008

  • We were adapted to the chilly island (cold) and did not know we were savages until the Romans (hot) came along and said something that sounded like, "Vos es barbarus."

    "a canyon of misunderstanding": more replies to ms wente 2008

  • We were adapted to the chilly island (cold) and did not know we were savages until the Romans (hot) came along and said something that sounded like, "Vos es barbarus."

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Maximinus invisum se sentiens, quod ex infimo loco in tantam fortunam venisset moribus ac genere barbarus, metuens ne natalium obscuritas objiceretur, omnes Alexandri praedecessoris ministros ex aula ejecit, pluribus interfectis quod moesti essent ad mortem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Restricted-range birds in this ecoregion include the Santa Barbara screech-owl (Otus barbarus), belted flycatcher (Xenotriccus callizonus), pink-heade warbler (Ergaticus versicolor), and black-capped siskin (Carduelis atriceps) classified as near threatened.

    Central American pine-oak forests 2007

  • Mammals found in this region include the only African endemic species of deer, Cervus elaphus barbarus, the Barbary leopard (Panthera pardus panthera), the Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus), and before its extinction in the 1930s, the Atlas lion (Panthera leo leo).

    Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests 2007

  • In fact “terrorist” sometimes captures the Roman sense of the Latin word “barbarus” better than the more obvious “barbarian”.

    They make a desert and call it peace 2006

  • = The same phrase in the same position (leaving space for the disyllable) at _EP_ III iii 26 'et coit astrictis _barbarus

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = Compare _EP_ II vii 69-70 'tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce est:/non patitur uerti barbarus hostis humum' and _EP_ III viii 6 'hostis ab agricola uix sinit illa [_sc_ loca] fodi'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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