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βάρβᾰρος

barbaros

barbarous, non-Greek, foreign, all non-Greek-speaking peoples

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Where it lives

  • Menexenus 19 · 39.53/10k
  • Helen 23 · 23.51/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 16 · 19.29/10k
  • Persians 9 · 17.68/10k
  • Minos 4 · 14.02/10k
  • Agesilaus 10 · 13.59/10k
  • Anabasis 76 · 13.52/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 12 · 13.44/10k
  • Bacchae 9 · 11.97/10k
  • Histories 197 · 10.73/10k
  • Ways and Means 4 · 10.46/10k
  • Trojan Women 7 · 9.89/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

barbarous, non-Greek, foreign, all non-Greek-speaking peoples, with the barbarians

barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in Hom. (but cf. βαρβαρόφωνος) ; β. ψυχαί Heraclit. 107; esp. as Subst. βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, A. Pers. 255, Hdt. 1.58, etc.: generally, opp. Ἕλληνες, Pl. Plt. 262d, cf. Th. 1.3, Arist. Pol. 1252b5, Str. 14.2.28; βαρβάρων Ἕλληνας ἄρχειν εἰκός E. IA 1400; β. καὶ δοῦλον ταὐτὸ φύσει Arist. Pol. 1252b9; οἱ β. δουλικώτεροι τὰ ἤθη φύσει τῶν Ἑλλήνων ib. 1285a20; β. πόλεμον war with the ba

2 foreign

esp. of language, φωνὴ β. A. Ag. 1051, Pl. Prt. 341c; γλῶσσα β. S. Aj. 1263, cf. Hdt. 2.57, Str. l.c. supr., etc.; συγγραφαί Hippias 6 D.; of birds, Ar. Av. 199. Adv., βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, Str. 10.3.17.

3 bad Greek

Gramm., of bad Greek, Gell. 5.20.5; τὸ β., of style, opp. Ἑλληνικόν, S.E. M. 1.64.

II brutal, rude

after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. Ar. Nu. 492; τὸ τῆς φύσεως β. καὶ θεοῖς ἐχθρόν D. 21.150; σκαιὸς καὶ β. τὸν τρόπον Id. 26.17; β. ἀνηλεής τε Men. Epit. 477: Comp. -ώτερος X.Eph. 2.4: Sup., πάντων βαρβαρώτατος θεῶν Ar. Av. 1573, cf. Th. 8.98, X. An. 5.4.34.

III Greeks

used by Jews of Greeks, LXX 2 Ma. 2.21.

IV plasters

name for various plasters, Androm. and Heras ap. Gal. 13.555. (Onomatopoeic acc. to Str. 14.2.28.)

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Where it came from

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