The large temple, built with barbarian rudeness, and ornamented with the Phoenician palm-branch, was on somewhat of a Roman plan, with a circular end to every room.
Firmus was a man of great size and bodily strength, and, of course, barbarian manners.
The first man ever to attract her, and already raving over some unwashed barbarian who soon was to be a common slave!
There stands our friend--staring at a barbarian wench as though she were a nobleman's daughter!
This barbarian would lose his smile when they put him in the arena with a hungry lion!
More likely he would get the truth from the barbarian whom Katon had recommended so highly.
A noble of Ammad, raving about some half-clad barbarian girl!
No longer was there a barbarian slave-girl to blind him to the beauty and charm of Urim's daughter.
The cave lord halted and half turned as though to withdraw, but the crowd, believing him to be afraid, set up an ear-splitting clamor of catcalls, whistlings and raucous shouts that whirled the barbarian about in sudden anger.
In what we usually call the German institutions, then, I am inclined only to perceive barbarian habits; and the opinions of savages, in what we style feudal principles.
The wild barbarian charge of undisciplined Gallic warriors was carried home.
But in each case the barbarian was not very far below the surface--any more than he is in an Englishman sometimes.
Imperial statesmen had realized that the Empire could only be upheld by an infusion of Barbarian virility, and they had favoured the process.
With peace came some respite; but the frightful squeeze of Byzantine taxation was as bad as Barbarian conquest.
As formerly she lured Barbarian nations, so now she lures individual Barbarians, and becomes the roaming-ground of travellers.
The Barbarians had once again broken through the barrier which nature had set up to protect Italy; they had rediscovered what a delightful place Italy was; and the second period of Barbarian invasion had begun.
Thus ended the first attempt to erect a Barbarian kingdom in Italy.
Yet the Empire was still regarded as the Roman Empire, and was looked up to by the young Barbarian kingdoms of Europe with the respect which they deemed due to the Empire of Augustus and Trajan.
The Barbarian elders admired Roman civilization, but were "stiff and lumpish in body and mind.
This tradition, by means of the ecclesiastical unity of Europe, had survived the Barbarian invasions, had gained strength through Charlemagne's Empire, and now joined together two nations so fundamentally different as Germany and Italy.
In all the long period of Barbarian dominion, eachBarbarian chief in turn had to face the imminent danger that these three political powers, the subject people, the Church, and the Empire, should make common cause against him.
And again the fierce death-shout pealed forth over the wild veldt, and was taken up and echoed in tones of hellish exultation from end to end of the excited barbarian host.
It may not here be out of place to offer a word of explanation as to the extraordinarily cordial relations existing between Eustace Milne and his barbarian neighbours.
That spark is applied by the tall barbarian who has first spoken.
At the same time Payne's pistol spoke, and another barbarian fell, his knee shattered by the bullet.
The city was founded far back in the troubled morning of Christian civilization, by refugees from barbarian invasion, and built with stones quarried from the ruins of old Altinum, over which Attila had passed desolating.
They will not deny that this boy is of revolting appearance, that his body is rotten through and through with disease, that he is liable to fits, and is a barbarian and a clodhopper.
All Greece, all the barbarian world, is too narrow for this man's ambition.
Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh, a barbarian; and he that speaketh, shall be a barbarian unto me.
For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known, Till by barbarian deluges o'erflown.
At that point a black champion, once an African slave, and other barbarian chiefs, fell, desperately fighting to the last.
He well knew what discipline could do against untrained hordes, however brave, and he was also well aware of the danger of retreating before a barbarian enemy.
Of what avail is it if a barbarian chieftain drives a horde of his savages through the waters of a river by way of extemporaneous or speedy baptism?
When Count Boniface, incited by the intrigues of the patrician Aetius, invited Genseric, the King of the Vandals, into Africa, that barbarian found in the discontented sectaries his most effectual aid.
This amusing but instructive quotation strikingly shows how quickly the semi barbarian Frankish clergy had caught the methods of Rome in the defence of temporal possessions.
Its civilization would have spontaneously died with it had no barbarian been present; and, if these intruders produced a baneful effect at first, they compensated for it in the end.
Under such influences Europe may be considered as emerging from thebarbarian state.
Papal Rome revolted from her sovereign, and became indissolubly bound to the barbarian kingdoms.
The purifying fire of the barbarian shall remove her heathenish defilements, and make her fit for the kingdom of Christ.
In the important political events coinciding with the death of Leo the Great, and the constitution of the kingdom of Italy by the barbarian Odoacer, A.
Doubtless these atrocities strengthened the bishops of Rome in their resolve to seek a protector from such a master among the barbarian kings of the West.
In his remonstrances with Justin, the great barbarian monarch displays sentiments far above his times, yet they were the sentiments that had hitherto regulated his actions.
The religion of the barbarian Europeans was in many respects like that of the American Indians.
A man who makes a mouthful of barbarian cavaliers," he added with a laugh, "should not be appalled by a breach of etiquette, however serious.
If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me.
Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free.
As a matter of course this annexation extended only to the town-territories themselves, and it never was intended to bring the barbarian dwellers around Tyra and Olbia under the Roman sceptre.
There was hardly any fighting on Macedonian soil under the empire; only the barbarian Dardani on the upper Axius (Vardar) still at times pillaged the peaceful neighbouring province.
This camp lay in the heart of the barbarian land (Valerius Max.
Of the more or less barbarian tribes on the peninsula itself, and on the European and Asiatic coast southward from Tanais, probably only the nearest stood in a fixed relation of dependence.
Athens on the other hand, who hire out lodgings to the young people flocking thither from Thrace and Pontus and other barbarian regions, allow their language to be corrupted by these more than they impart to them good speaking.
Presently the barbarian returns, discovers his loss, charges the image with faithlessness, and, snatching up a whip, threatens it with a thrashing if the treasure is not brought back.
When the barbarian returns, his delight is naturally very great at perceiving so complete an atonement for the saint's initial oversight.
The following is one of the three verses in which the barbarian proclaims his loss; the last two lines in the vernacular are the same for all.
A living Thor to that barbarian horde Was the bold Thane, and ev'n the men of blood Felt Harold's loss amid the host's dismay Would rend the clasp that link'd the wild array.
A barbarian soldier, finding a bag of shining leather filled with pearls, threw away the contents and preserved the bag; and the uncultivated savages gathered a vast spoil from the tents of the Persians.
He subdued the barbarian tribes between the Euxine and the confines of Armenia, including the whole of Colchis and the province called Lesser Armenia; and he even added to his dominions the Tauric Chersonesus, now called the Crimea.
The barbarian immediately threw down his sword, and rushed out of the house, exclaiming, "I can not kill C.
Orestes, who had succeeded Count Ricimer as commander of thebarbarian mercenaries, deprived Nepos of his throne; and Nepos, having fled into Dalmatia, was executed by his old rival Glycerius.
The old man struck him on the head with his ivory sceptre; whereupon the barbarian slew him, and all the rest were massacred.
The rumors of internal bickerings among the Great Nobles of the barbarian empire were not the only rumors he heard.
As they moved in toward the heart of the barbarian empire, the men noticed a definite change in the degree of civilization of the natives--or, at least, in the degree of technological advancement.
They were afterwards defeated by Germanicus, who, on his march through the forest so fatal to his countrymen, found the bones of the legions where they had been left to blanch by their barbarian conqueror.
At this sight, the barbarian horse were so astonished, and the foot so terrified, that breaking through the line of baggage, they betook themselves to flight with a loud shout, and in great disorder.
The Pope was appealed to and he of course gave a clear decision, not in the English way of compromise, which is the way of a barbarian and a coward, but like an honest man deciding 'twixt right and wrong.
It may be conjectured that he must have died in 404, as he could hardly otherwise have omitted to celebrate the greatest of Stilicho's achievements, the destruction of the barbarian host led by Radagaisus in the following year.
Most of their barbarian neighbours were ashamed to be seen undressed, but the Greeks seem to have felt little embarrassment in appearing naked in public.
If all the rest of the gospel were taken away, or destroyed in the night of some future barbarian invasion, we should still here possess the secret of the wonderful impression which Jesus made upon those who heard him speak.
A baby or a barbarian may delight in loud heterogeneity and vivid confusion, but extravagance of sensation does not constitute an æsthetic experience.
The barbarian hordes affectionately following the lead of Charlemagne incidentally help to build the whole edifice of European civilization.
He was home in the mountains where others were like him and he was not a barbarian any longer among contemptuous strangers.
On the left was Ariaeus, Cyrus's second in command, and the rest of the barbarian host.
From this place Cyrus advanced one stage--three parasangs--with the whole body of his troops, Hellenic and barbarian alike in order of battle.
Not long after that, at one and the same signal, those within were seized and those without cut down; after which some of the barbarian horsemen galloped over the plain, killing every Hellene they encountered, bond or free.
At this time thebarbarian army was evenly advancing, and the Hellenic division was still riveted to the spot, completing its formation as the various contingents came up.
Where the barbarian was friendly to them, we stayed our hands from injury; or under their escort, we did damage to their enemies to the utmost of our power.
Every city will march against us, and not unjustly, if, after refusing to hold one single barbarian city by right of conquest, we seize the first Hellenic city that we come to and make it a ruinous heap.
But when it was late afternoon, the time had come for the enemy to 34 withdraw, since the habit of the barbarian was never to encamp within seven or eight miles of the Hellenic camp.
