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To: skr
It's ironic that the Romans referred to many others as "barbarians" when they themselves fed Christians to the lions or crucified them on crosses, but I guess they must have thought of themselves as most civilized.
10 posted on 11/08/2011 6:27:32 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: I Drive Too Fast

>>>It’s ironic that the Romans referred to many others as “barbarians”

Didn’t the Greeks invent the word “barbarians” ?


12 posted on 11/08/2011 6:51:36 PM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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