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βαρβᾰρ-ικός

barbarikos

barbaric, non-Greek

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Where it lives

  • Cratylus 5 · 2.8/10k
  • Anabasis 14 · 2.49/10k
  • Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
  • Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
  • Politics 4 · 0.61/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Republic 3 · 0.34/10k
  • Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
  • Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • History 3 · 0.2/10k
  • Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

barbaric, non-Greek, in barbaric fashion, of barbarians, more in the Persian fashion, in Persian, in the language of the country, in foreign fashion

barbaric, non-Greek, χείρ Simon. 136; ψυκτήρ OGI 214.47 (Didyma, Seleucus I); τὸ β., = οἱ βάρβαροι, Th. 1.6, 7.29; τὰ β. ἔθνη Arist. Pol. 1257a25, etc.; νόμιμα β. leges barbarorum, name of a treatise by Arist.; νόμοι λίαν ἁπλοῖ καὶ β. Pol. 1268b40; esp. of the Persians, X. An. 1.5.6; ἐς τὸ β. in barbaric fashion, Luc. DMort. 22[27].3; β. ἐπιδρομή inroad of barbarians, PMasp. 321.5 (vi A. D.); ἐς τὸ βαρβαρικώτερον more in the Persian fashion, Arr. An. 4.8.2: Sup. -ώτατος Sch. Th. 7.29. Adv., ἐβόα

II barbarous, violent, barbarously

barbarous, violent, πένθη Plu. Cons.Apoll. 2.114e. Adv. -κῶς barbarously, ὠμῶς καὶ β. Id. Dio 35: Comp. -ώτερον Id. Alex. 2.

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Where it came from

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