Meanings of barbarian hordes in English

Cicero's looked as if it had been invaded by barbarian hordes.

Someone likely to defend us against the incoming barbarian hordes?'

Liberated from its influence, peoples and armies become barbarian hordes.

Whence had they come then, the men of Memphir and the ancestors of the barbarian hordes?

When we turn to our own civilization, however, there are no barbarian hordes to take the blame.

If here there are no men, then there will rise no barbarian hordes to dispute our rule.

In 455 they crossed back to Italy, and Rome was sacked for the second time by barbarian hordes.

Ah, wait -I'mthe barbarian hordes...'

The barbarian hordes affectionately following the lead of Charlemagne incidentally help to build the whole edifice of European civilization.

These were the last of the barbarian hordes, and are not mentioned by any author before the sixth century.

He had also heard stories of raiders gone wild-scavengersas thieves and murderers, as bad as the barbarian hordes of ancient history.

In the case of the Roman Empire the armies of civilization did, as a fact, always have the better of the barbarian hordes.

He was consul in Africa at the time when summoned to save his country from the danger threatening it from the barbarian hordes.

For eight hundred years Rome had not been touched by foreign hands, and now it had been captured and plundered by barbarian hordes.

While the Romans were conquering the towns of Etruria, these barbarian hordes were moving southward, and overrunning and devastating the countries of Central Italy.

I told you yesterday of the origin of the kingdom of Egypt, and of the struggles carried on by barbarian hordes against each other.