Surely you can see that your terms beg the question, Richard? Or do you really regard Romans, Greeks, Hebrews, Chinese et al as, by definition and ipso facto, 'barbarians' on the sole grounds that they practised cap-pun as every society has always done till the last practically-no-time-at-all?

Oh come ~~ even you couldn't ~~ oh well, on past showing, I suppose you could!