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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 See also:early Greeks for all foreigners. The word is probably onomatopoetic, designed to represent the uncouth babbling of which See also:languages other than their own appeared to the Greeks to consist. Even the See also:Romans were included in the See also:term. The word soon assumed an evil meaning, becoming associated with the vices and See also:savage natures of which they believed their enemies to be possessed. The Romans adopted the word for all peoples other than those under Graeco-See also:Roman See also:influence and domination. It has See also:long become synonymous with a See also:general lack of See also:civilization.

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