barbaria

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

barbaria ae (nom.also -iēs, acc.iem), f

barbarus, a strange land, foreign country (opp. Greece and Italy): barbariae bellum inferre: Quid tibi barbariem ... numerem? O.: Graecia barbariae conlisa, i. e. Phrygia , H.: quae barbaria Indiā vastior. — Rudeness, savageness, barbarism : ista quanta barbaria est, savage state of society : inveterata: domestica, corrupting influence.—An uncivilized people : quale bellum nulla barbaria gessit.

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