The leader of barbarians

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The word "Barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βρβαρος (Bárbaros) which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. The Romans also used the term to refer to those who were unshaven, and therefore "unbarbered". The word is sound imitative, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing a spoken language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, "stammering" or "curly-haired" (This term was mainly used by Romans to refer to the Germanic tribes.) An alternative etymology of "barbarian" from the Latin barba, meaning beard is spurious. This term was mainly used by Romans to refer to the Germanic tribes.
  Originally the term was empty of content beyond 'not Greek'. The Greeks encountered scores of different foreign cultures, including the Thracians, Egyptians, Persians, Celts, Germanics, Phoenicians, Etruscans, Romans and Carthaginian, none of which had any characteristics in common. It was not the case that Greeks automatically despised all alien cultures. Plato (Statesman 262de) rejected the Greek–barbarian dichotomy as a logical absurdity on just such grounds: dividing the world into Greeks and non-Greeks told one nothing about the second group.
  In Homer's works the term appeared only once (Iliad 2.867), in the form barbarophonos ("of incomprehensible speech"), used of the Carians fighting for Troy during the Trojan War. In general the concept of barbaros did not figure largely in archaic literature before the 5th century BC.

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