βάρβαρος

barbaros

barbarous

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

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Politics 13
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Book I 5
Chapter 2 1252a24–1253a39

1252b5
1252b8
1252b9

Chapter 6 1255a3–1255b15

1255a29
1255a34
Book II 1
Chapter 5 1262b37–1264b25

1263a8
Book III 2
Chapter 14 1284b35–1285b32

1285a17
1285a20
Book IV 1
Chapter 10 1295a1–24

1295a11
Book V 1
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10

1313b10
Book VII 3
Chapter 9 1328b24–1329a39

1329a26

Chapter 10 1329a40–1330a33

1330a29

Chapter 17 1336a3–1337a7

1336a15
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book VII 2
Chapter 1 1145a15–1145b20

1145a31

Chapter 5 1148b15–1149a23

1149a11
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 2
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Chapter 79 836a7–18

836a12
Chapter 107 840a15–26

840a25
Rhetoric 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 22 1395b21–1397a6

1396a18
Book III 1
Chapter 9 1409a22–1410b5

1410a15
On the Heavens 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 3 269b18–270b31

270b7
Parts of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 10 672b10–673a31

673a24

Dictionary (LSJ)

βάρβαρος, ον, A. barbarous, i.e. non-Greek, foreign, not in Hom. (but cf. βαρβαρόφωνος) ; β. ψυχαί Heraclit. 107; esp. as Subst. βάρβαροι, οἱ, originally all non-Greek-speaking peoples, then specially of the Medes and Persians, A. Pers. 255, Hdt. 1.58, etc.: generally, opp. Ἕλληνες, Pl. Plt. 262d, cf. Th. 1.3, Arist. Pol. 1252b5, Str. 14.2.28; βαρβάρων Ἕλληνας ἄρχειν εἰκός E. IA 1400; β. καὶ δοῦλον ταὐτὸ φύσει Arist. Pol. 1252b9; οἱ β. δουλικώτεροι τὰ ἤθη φύσει τῶν Ἑλλήνων ib.1285a20; β. πόλεμον war with the barbarians, Th. 2.36 codd.; ἡ βάρβαρος (sc. γῆ), opp. αἱ Ἑλληνίδες πόλεις, Th. 2.97, cf.A. Pers. 187, X. An. 5.5.16. Adv. -ρως, opp. Ἑλληνικῶς, Porph. Abst. 3.3. 2. esp. of language, φωνὴ β. A. Ag. 1051, Pl. Prt. 341c; γλῶσσα β. S. Aj. 1263, cf. Hdt. 2.57, Str. l. c. supr., etc.; συγγραφαί Hippias 6 D.; of birds, Ar. Av. 199. Adv., βαρβάρως, ὠνόμασται have foreign names, Str. 10.3.17. 3. Gramm., of bad Greek, Gell. 5.20.5; τὸ β., of style, opp. Ἑλληνικόν, S.E. M. 1.64. II. after the Persian war, brutal, rude, ἀμαθὴς καὶ β. Ar. Nu. 492; τὸ τῆς φύσεως β. καὶ θεοῖς ἐχθρόν D. 21.150; σκαιὸς καὶ β. τὸν τρόπον Id. 26.17; β. ἀνηλεής τε Men. Epit. 477: Comp. -ώτερος X. Eph.2.4: Sup., πάντων βαρβαρώτατος θεῶν Ar. Av. 1573, cf. Th. 8.98, X. An. 5.4.34. III. used by Jews of Greeks, LXX2 Ma. 2.21. IV. name for various plasters, Androm. and Heras ap.Gal. 13.555. (Onomatopoeic acc. to Str. 14.2.28.)

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