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May I offer another short note on language. I happened upon
A. Pagden's _The Fall of Natural Man_ (CUP, 1982) on a
colleague's bookshelf and have been reading it avidly.
Chapter 2 of that book is titles "The image of the
barbarian" and Pagden does his best to develop successive
stages in the development of connotations attached to the
word. He starts with Greek and mentions its application to
"The Berbers of North Africa" (for which use he somewhat
oddly cites the _Primera cronica general (1289) ed. R.
Menendez (Madrid, 1955), v. I, p.27, 157; and refers us also
to R. A. Skelton _Explorers ' maps. Chapters in the
cartographic record of geographical exploration_ (London,
1958), 45, 60). Let me hazard a wild guess that the reason
OED declines to name Greek as the earliest usage is because
their lexicographers tried and failed to find a good
documentary trail from Hellenic Greek to 7th century
CE Arabic.This is just a guess, though.
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