>>>It’s ironic that the Romans referred to many others as “barbarians”
Didn’t the Greeks invent the word “barbarians” ?
Nope, the Romans coined it referring to the jibberish that the Romans heard when the Germanic tribes spoke, “bar, bar, bar, bar.”
The Latin part of the origin is “barbarus,” but it came from the Greek “barbaros,” which means “foreign.”
Barbarian essentialy is Greek for someone who is not a member of a Greek city state