The culture of their Hispano-Roman subjects was gradually adopted by the Visigoths.
, rural, illiterate, peasants) to honestly express a natural way of life, while classical music seemed superficial and decadent
== Etymology ==The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the ancient Roman orator Cicero in his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi," using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development

