Brunhilde was captured, and put to death in a barbarous manner.
As the procession climbed the Capitoline Hill, some of the captives of rank were taken into the adjoining Mamertine prison, and barbarously put to death.
Vespasian had begun the war with the Jews while Nero reigned (A.
At the same time he entered into relations with the barbarians in the north, in order that Aëtius, who endeavored to bring in some degree of order and obedience in the empire, might be checked and restrained on all sides.
These were hordes of barbarians who appeared in the Alpine regions, the Cimbri being either Celts, or, like the Teutones, Germans.
The Roman armies were recruited by bringing numerous barbarians into the ranks.
In 476, after successive invasions of barbarians had disorganized the western part of the Empire, the line of phantom emperors at Rome came to an end.
Persia was soon to threaten the empire on the East, and Gothic barbarians to invade its territories.
The barbarians wasted their own fields, filled up their wells, drove off their cattle, and fled as the army of Darius advanced.
After Justinian, there is an endless recurrence of wars with the Arabs, and with the barbarians on the North, and of theological disputes, either within the empire itself, or with the Church of the West.
The power of the peoples of western Asia, the guardians of infant civilization, availed to keep back the hordes of barbarians on the north, or, as in the case of the great Scythian invasion (p.
While the empire, as regards the power of self-defense, was sinking, the barbarians were not only profiting by the military skill and experience of the Romans, but were forming military unions among their several tribes.
The barbarians hesitated to assume the purple themselves, but they determined on whom it should be bestowed.
Meantime the barbarians were learning from their employers the art of war, and were gaining soldierly discipline.
Stilicho had kept up friendly relations with Alaric, and had retained in Italy thirty thousand barbarians in the pay of the empire.
He had united to the Roman troops the barbarians who had occupied Gaul, the Visigoths under Theodoric, the Saxons, the Burgundians, the Ripuarian and the Salian Franks.
These barbarians are nothing but great wilful children.
In fact, En-Noor considers them the veriest barbarians in this region of Africa.
What had always differentiated the imperialists from the barbarians since the fall of the old empire was their Catholicism.
The Lombards were barbarians and therefore pagans or Arians, but their Arianism was of a different kind from that of the Huns, different even from that of the Ostrogoths.
But Belisarius' vast experience of the character of the barbarians taught him otherwise.
It cannot be altogether a cooincidence that those barbarians which first became Catholic, though they had been ruder and rougher than the rest, were destined to re-establish the empire in the West--the Franks.
He ruled too, as Odoacer had done, by Roman law, and the Arian heresy, which he and his barbarians professed as their religion, was not till the very end of his reign permitted precedence over the Catholic Faith.
Stilicho, not daring to march hisbarbarians from Bologna upon the Roman army, and by this refusal incurring their enmity also, flung himself into Ravenna and took refuge in the great church there.
It lasted for three hundred and seventy-four days and ended in the sullen retreat of the barbarians to save Ravenna, which as Vitiges had at first foreseen would happen was threatened with attack.
The barbarians fled and Belisarius and his gallant troopers entered the City at nightfall.
Come out with all that mongrel host of barbariansto whom you want to deliver Italy and let us behold you, for the eyes of the Goths hunger for the sight of you.
However that may be, Theodoric after many an encounter with barbarians wilder than his own descended from the Julian Alps into Venetia in August 489, after a march of not less than ten months.
In the end the barbarians succeeded in that branch of constructive statesmanship where Rome had failed most signally.
The great service that the barbarians rendered was a service of destruction.
The Goths were licentious barbarians who would obey no laws; and to deprive the commonwealth of laws would have been a crime.
Though the Age of the Barbarians had been ended by the greatest of them, the era which he inaugurated was an era not of revival but of new development.
The barbarians had ignored the institutions of the municipium, though it often served them as a fortress or a royal residence or a centre of administration.
We were healthy young barbarians and that was all.
Those barbarians of the foreign city to the south, drunk with power, were to sack and loot the city.
The barbarians without, the pestilence within, decimate his subjects, the hostile gods seem to mock his goodness, and the simple people who look up to him as their tutelary power wonder hopelessly why he cannot save them.
Only, all this culture (to call it by that name) of the Barbarians was an exterior culture mainly.
These fierce barbariansfound among the Celts of Britain a Roman culture, and the Christian religion exerting its influence for order and humanity.
She liked the Indian all the better after that, however, because Bundy proved to be a bad fellow, and believing that she could be happier among barbarians than among a people that approved such marriages, she eloped with Winnisook.
I wanted her as barbarians want a hunted enemy, alive or dead.
So you are going to harangue these barbarians in Latin?
Far from his mother, carried away by those barbarians of the north, he was like Antaeus, the son of Terra, who lost his strength when lifted in the arms of Hercules.
Especially towards the mouth of the Danube there was wanting a sufficient bulwark against the barbariansnow pressing on with increasing weight.
The barbarians did not come then, nor by this route.
Into this well fortified and strongly garrisoned town all had fled, and the barbarians were not in a position for a real siege.
The forlorn position of these Hellenes amidst thebarbarians pressing around them, in the time of the Diadochi as well as during the earlier rule of the Roman republic, has already been described (iii.
The Caledonians--with the Iverni the Romans hardly came into contact--are described throughout asbarbarians of the wildest type.
It is significant of the unsettled state of things that the instigator of this movement was Chrysogonus, a Greek of Nicomedia, and that he was highly honoured by the barbarians for its successful result.
Missionaries were sent out by the Irish Church to convert the wild Picts of Scotland and at a later day the distant barbarians of Germany and Switzerland.
Now we come to a time when the power of Rome was broken and tribes of barbarians who lived north of the Danube and the Rhine took possession of lands that had been part of the Roman Empire.
For a long time the Goths were at war with another tribe of barbarians called Huns.
Henry held his army in waiting until lack of food compelled the barbarians to divide their forces into two separate bodies.
The German nobles were not willing for any foreign prince to govern them, and yet they saw that they must unite to defend their country against the invasions of the barbarians called Magyars (ma-jarz').
I Long before the beginning of the period known as the Middle Ages a tribe of barbarians called the Goths lived north of the River Danube in the country which is now known as Roumania.
Such, at least, was the case with the Visigoths, who alone of the barbarians proved a permanent factor in the country’s development.
Of course, during these centuries, the gradual subjugation of the western empire by the barbarians had been powerfully operative in the obscuring of culture.
Many thousands of the barbarians were slain in the field, and great numbers in the storming of the camp.
Presently the barbarians patrolling around the walls in troops, they heard their yells and the dissonant clangour of their arms.
While Sigebert was fighting the Avars, barbarians from Asia, on the eastern frontier, his two brothers amused themselves by pillaging his western provinces.
Notwithstanding all this, there are still historians of the present day who speak of "the catastrophe of 406 breaking abruptly the bond which attached the barbarians to the Empire of the West.
The polish and refinement of the Saracens distinguished them wholly from the rude barbarians of the North.
For several centuries after the irruption of the Barbarians and the fall of Rome, there are scarce any visible traces of the existence of those manufactures which attained so high a development in the old world.
Of the achievements of Phillips in the way of science (for he assures he is born to the high destiny of enlightening both barbarians and civilized nations) I take the liberty, with his permission, of mentioning one.
She asked me about barbarians when I was trying to induce her to get dressed for the party.
But the barbarians never wore any clothes, and they were nice.
The barbarians were confessedly strangers to any such conception as that of a Will.
Primogeniture did not belong to the Customs which the barbarians practised on their first establishment within the Roman Empire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbarians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
