Yes I’m aware of this. But then this would be a Barbarian group approaching a Barbarian gate. I find it more odd that we refer to the people approaching the gate as Barbarians. The Romans themselves would have called them something else.
The Romans themselves would have called them something else.
In Ancient Rome, the Romans adapted and applied the term to tribal non-Romans such as the Germanics, Celts, Iberians, Helvetii, Thracians, Illyrians, and Sarmatians.
The Romans used the term barbarus for uncivilised people, opposite to Greek or Roman, and in fact, it became a common term to refer to all foreigners among Romans after Augustus age (as, among the Greeks, after the Persian wars, the Persians), including the Germanic peoples, Persians, Gauls, Phoenicians and Carthaginians.
Yes I’m aware of this. But then this would be a Barbarian group approaching a Barbarian gate. I find it more odd that we refer to the people approaching the gate as Barbarians. The Romans themselves would have called them something else.
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