Perseus · Tufts

Collections: Classics · Papyri · Renaissance · London · California · Upper Midwest · Chesapeake · Boyle · Tufts History Configure display · Help · Tools · Copyright · FAQ · Publications · Collaborations · Support Perseus

927 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *o, entry oi)koume/nh
   ; then the Greek world, opp. barbarian lands, ; (23.84)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *b, entry barba^risti/
   in barbarian or foreign language, (15.34)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *s111, entry su^bh/nh
   flute-case, , , (where a barbarian is speaking), , , , (15.34)

   More

3 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, Part 2 act 1, scene 2, line 46
   Callapine A hundred Bassoes cloath'd in crimson silk
   Shall ride before the on Barbarian Steeds:
   And when thou goest, a golden Canapie
   Enchac'd with pretious stones, which shine as bright
   As that faire vail that covers all the world:
   When Phoebus leaping from his Hemi-Spheare,
   Discendeth downward to th'Antipodes.
   (5.16)

2. Faust Book chapter 49
   And presently vpon the making of this Letter, he became so great an enemie vnto the poore olde man, that he sought his life by all meanes possible; but this godly man was strong in the holy Ghost, that he could not be vanquished by any meanes: for about two dayes after that hee had exhorted Faustus, as the poore man lay in his bed, sodainely there was a mightie rumbling in the Chamber, the which hee was neuer wont to heare, & he heard as it had been the groning of a Sowe, which lasted long: whereupon the good olde man began to iest, and mock, and saide: oh what Barbarian crie is this, oh fayre Bird, what foule musick is this of a faire Angell, that could not tarrie two dayes in his place': beginnest thou now to runne into a (2.49)

3. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 1, scene 1, line 82
   Jupiter Content thee Cytherea in thy care,
   Since thy Aeneas wandring fate is firme,
   Whose wearie lims shall shortly make repose,
   In those faire walles I promist him of yore:
   But first in bloud must his good fortune bud,
   Before he be the Lord of Turnus towne,
   Or force her smile that hetherto hath frownd:
   Three winters shall he with the Rutiles warre,
   And in the end subdue them with his sword,
   And full three Sommers likewise shall he waste,
   In mannaging those fierce barbarian mindes:
   Which once performd, poore Troy so long supprest,
   From forth her ashes shall advance her head,
   And flourish once againe that erst was dead:
   But bright Ascanius, beauties better worke
   Who with the Sunne devides one radiant shape,
   Shall build his throne amidst those starrie towers,
   That earth-borne Atlas groning underprops:
   No bounds but heaven shall bound his Emperie,
   Whose azured gates enchased with his name,
   Shall make the morning hast her gray uprise,
   To feede her eyes with his engraven fame.
   (1.52)

13 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Barbarism
   Barbarism, manner and quality of a barbarian; either savage cruelty: b. itself must have pitied him, ; or rude ignorance and want of good manners: I have for b. spoke more than for that angel knowledge you can say, . (4.65)

2. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background part 1, chapter 1, section 0
   Subjects were taken from legends of the dawn like the story of Lucretia, and from rumours of the dusk like the story of Lucina; from Roman pictures of barbarian allies like Massinissa in the South, or barbarian antagonists like Caractacus in the North; as well as from the intimate records of home affairs and the careers of the great magnates of the Republic or Empire. (4.49)

3. William Shakespeare, Othello (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 1, scene 3, line 357
   Iago. Make all the money
   thou
   
   canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
   
   
   an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
   
   be
   not too hard for my wits and all the
   
   tribe of hell, thou
   shalt enjoy her; therefore
   
   make money. (4.30)

   More

3 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices section DRAMATIC VERSIONS, subsection Antonio e Cleopatra, by Vittorio Alfieri
   Cleo. When at last he says that he abhors life because he is endlessly disgraced, and abhors death because she might find him out among the Shades and even there destroy his peace, she breaks forth, Dost seek, barbarian, solace for thy fury?
   (2.99)

2. Appendices section DRAMATIC VERSIONS, subsection Cleopatre, by Mr De la Chapelle
   She asks if she is to remain for ever trembling, and for ever accused, exposed to the violence and jealous transports of an enraged barbarian; she sees his design to drive her away and she will at once gratify him. (2.84)

3. Appendices section DRAMATIC VERSIONS, subsection Kleopatra und Antonius, by Cornelius von Ayrenhoff
   One thing remains, my honour is my own
   And should this pride, this day involve my death
   The thought of but one weakness makes me rue:—
   That, O barbarian, I have lived for you!
   (2.25)

1 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section ACTORS INTERPRETATIONS, subsection Tommaso Salvini
   In appearance he was a huge, bearded warrior, more barbarian than Roman. (2.49)

32 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Henry Mayhew, Extra Volume: London Labour and the London Poor chapter 5, page 102
   The inhabitants of Borneo, for the most part, remain in an inferior stage of the barbarian state. (4.65)

2. Henry Mayhew, Extra Volume: London Labour and the London Poor chapter 5, page 133
   A privilege belongs to the female sex here which it enjoys in no other barbarian country. (4.41)

3. Henry Mayhew, Extra Volume: London Labour and the London Poor chapter 5, page 93
   WHEN we visit the semi-civilized communities of South America, instead of the barbarian tribes still running wild in its deserts of forest, the state of morals we discover presents a contrast by no means favourable to the half-educated States, where a hybrid compromise seems to have been made between refinement and barbarism. (4.30)

   More

26 from American Memory: California

1. Roughing it. By Mark Twain page 481
   The christianizing of the natives has hardly even weakened some of their barbarian superstitions, much less destroyed them. (6.18)

2. Summer saunterings, by "Derrick Dodd" ... [pseud.] a series of semi-humorous, semi-descriptive letters about Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Jose, Napa Soda Springs, Saucelito, San Rafael, Santa Rosa, Cloverdale, Calistoga, Cliff house, etc., etc., etc. and the Yosemite page 25
   But we stood in and helped find one, and then herded it to a bare spot of ground, where the fair barbarian volunteered to hold it under her foot while we hunted up another. (5.16)

3. Alonzo Delano's California correspondence: being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1952. Edited by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell. Decorations by Harry O. Diamond page 73
   What a barbarian I am. (4.65)

   More

20 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Medical history of Michigan: Volume I page 39
   Barbarian (? (5.29)

2. The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts page 70
   Through an aperture, which afforded me a view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. (4.41)

3. The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pioneers who recorded their divers ways of observing Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year's page 16
   Here applies the principle that man without the society of woman, is a barbarian. (3.58)

   More

10 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Frank Hutchins, Virginia: the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history page 286
   These kinks were silly artificialities that came when the noble old barbarian was civilized and named in honour of a vain and frivolous foreign king. (3.68)

2. Peter Force, Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 4 page 29
   All are in places far distant—thus, doubtless, that so they expect to obtain an earlier acquaintance with the barbarian language, and propagate more widely the sacred faith of the gospel. (3.40)

3. Relatio itineris in Marylandiam; declearatio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro. Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum, ab anno 1635, a.d. annum 1638. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland, by Father Andrew White, S.J. An account of the colony of the page 62
   All are in places far distant—thus, doubtless, that so they expect to obtain an earlier acquaintance with the barbarian language, and propagate more widely the sacred faith of the gospel. (3.32)

   More