Sunday, November 09, 2025
A Barbarian
Aristophanes, Clouds 492 (tr. Jeffrey Henderson):
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This fellow's ignorant and barbaric!S. Douglas Olson ad loc.:
ἅνθρωπος ἀμαθὴς οὑτοσὶ καὶ βάρβαρος.
A βάρβαρος is someone who does not know Greek, and thus by definition an idiot.
