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He says "Moors, Alartes, Cabayles, and some Turks, form all of them a dirty, lazy, inhuman, indomitable nation of beasts, and it is for this reason that, for the last few years, I have accustomed myself to call that land the land of Barbary." Procopius, de Bello Vandilico, lib. ii. cap. 10. Some derive it from Sarak, an Arabic word which signifies to steal, and hence, call the conquerors thieves.
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