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BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 382 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)  , the name among the
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early Greeks for all foreigners . The word is probably onomatopoetic, designed to represent the uncouth babbling of which
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languages other than their own appeared to the Greeks to consist . Even the
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Romans were included in the
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term . The word soon assumed an evil meaning, becoming associated with the vices and
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savage natures of which they believed their enemies to be possessed . The Romans adopted the word for all peoples other than those under Graeco-
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Roman
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influence and domination . It has
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long become synonymous with a
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general lack of
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civilization .

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