Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Translated by Catharine Roth13 Oct 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although they were barbarians before." The hoopoe says [this] about the birds.1