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Definition of Barbarians

1. barbarian [n] - See also: barbarian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarians

Literary usage of Barbarians

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sociological Study of the Bible by Lucy Blanche (Littelton) Masterman, Louis Wallis, William Shakespeare (1912)
"The barbarians of Europe moved about in kinship groups under the rule of ... When the curtain rose on the history of Europe, the barbarians consisted of ..."

2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The wisdom of Probus embraced a great and beneficial plan of replenishing the exhausted frontiers, by new colonies of captive or fugitive barbarians, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"... of the barbarians UNDER the reign of Constantine the grandson of Heraclius, ... was irretrievably swept away by a new deluge of barbarians. ..."

4. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... "ami to the top of one of the hills, being the one which he increases ••' ' thought the barbarians would be most likely to occupy; ..."

5. A History of the Italian Republics: Being a View of the Rise, Progress, and by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1832)
"After the invasion of the barbarians, the people everywhere belonged, ... Thus it frequently happened that the chief, called by the barbarians king, ..."

6. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1892)
"NIGHT ATTACK BY THE barbarians. NARROW ESCAPE or THEODOSIUS 2. ... When the barbarians saw such utter disorder prevailing in the Imperial 1 Strabo speaks ..."

7. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1773)
"'that the "Laws df the barbarians were all ... the barbarians, that they were not confined ... barbarians ..."

8. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"HE art of war had attained its highest degree of perfection among the Romans, when' the successive invasions of the barbarians began to burst like an ..."

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