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(h)a Agemtrtos mdes eist. "Let no one untrained in geometry enter." Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy (quoted in Elias' commentary on Aristotle's Categories). / Ae Lib phrei ti kakn / kainn. "Libya always bears something evil / new", Aristotle, Historia Animalium. Compare Latin Ex Africa semper aliquid novi "From Africa always something new", Pliny. Ae kolois par koloii hiznei. "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw" Similar to English "birds of a feather flock together."
The School of Athens. Fresco by Raphael (15101511)

Aei ho theos gemetre. "God always geometrizes", Plato Plutarch elaborated on this phrase in his essay "What is Platos meaning when he says that god always applies geometry".[1] Based on the above phrase of Plato, a present day mnemonic for (pi) was derived: Ae ho thes ho mgas gemetre t smpan. "Always the great God applies geometry to everything" = 3.1415926...

Aristotle, marble copy of Lysippus

3 letters 1 letter 4 letters 1 letter 5 letters 9 letters , Aeto gras, korydo nets. "An eagle's old age (is worth) a sparrow's youth".

2 letters 6 letters

ain aristeein Ever to Excel Motto of the University of St Andrews (founded 1410), the Edinburgh Academy (founded 1824), and Boston College (founded 1863). The source is the sixth book of Homer's Iliad, (Iliad 6. 208) in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes: "Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great ... This is my ancestry; this is the blood I am proud to inherit."

Papyrus, dated 75125 A.D. describing one of the oldest diagrams of Euclid's Elements

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Annki d'oud theo mkhontai. "Not even the gods fight necessity" Simonides, 8, 20. Andrn gr epiphann psa g tphos. For illustrious men have the whole earth for their tomb. Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 2.43.1 Anerrhphth kbos. Alea iacta est. Latin: "The die has been cast"; Greek: "Let the die be cast." Julius Caesar as reported by Plutarch, when he entered Italy with his army in 49 BC. Translated into Latin by Suetonius as alea iacta est. nthrpos mtron. "Man [is] the measure [of all things]" Motto of Protagoras. Hpax legmenon. "Once said" A word that only occurs once. Ap mkhans Thes Deus ex machina "God from the machine" The phrase originates from the way god figures appeared in ancient Greek theaters, held high up by a machine, to solve a problem in the plot. Ap to hlou metstthi "Stand a little out of my sun" Legendary reply of Diogenes the Cynic when Alexander the Great asked him if he had any wish he desired to fulfil version recounted by Plutarch[2] riston mn hdr. "Greatest however [is] water" Pindar, Olymp. 1, 1 Used as the inscription over the Pump Room at Bath.

A motto, Depicted on engraving at the Boston College

b Basilea tn ourann "kingdom of the heavens" "Heaven" is a foundational theological concept in Christianity and Judaism. "God's Kingdom" ( , Basileia tou Theou), or the "Kingdom of [the] Heaven[s]" was the main point of Jesus Christ's preaching on earth. The phrase occurs more than a hundred times in the New Testament.

" " Diogenes the Cynic - in a 1763 painting by Jacques Gamelin

Entrance of the Pump Room at Bath Bellerophnts t grmmata "Bellerophontic letter" King Proetus dared not to kill a guest, so he sent Bellerophon to King Iobates, his father-in-law, bearing a sealed message in a folded tablet: "Pray remove the bearer from this world: he attempted to violate my wife, your daughter."

Brma then "Food of the gods" Allegedly said by Nero of the poisoned mushrooms with which his mother Agrippina the Younger murdered Claudius.

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From a ca 500 BC vase depicting writing with stylus and folding wax tablet

Gentht phs.
Fiat lux. "Let there be light." Translated from Hebrew ( yehiy or) in Genesis. Often used for its metaphorical meaning of dispelling ignorance. /

Glak Athnaze / eis Athnas

"Owls (Athenian drachmas) to Athens" Aristophanes, The Birds [4] E.g., coals to Newcastle, ice to the Eskimos. . Gnthi seautn. "Know thyself" Aphorism inscribed over the entrance to the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Grdios desms "Gordian Knot" The Gordian Knot is a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke

Athenian tetradrachm depicting goddess Athena (obverse) and owl (reverse). In daily use, Athenian drachmas were called glaukai, "owls"
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d Demos ka Phbos "Horror and Fear" Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars, are named after the sons of the Greek god Ares (Roman Mars): Deimos "horror"[5] and Phobos "fear".[6] Diarei ka basleue. "Divide and rule." . Diplon horsin hoi mathntes grmmata. "Those who know the letters see double." Attributed to Pythagoras. Inscription in Edinburgh from 1954: .

Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, (Jean-Simon Berthlemy)

Deimos and Phobos

Ds moi p st, ka tn gn kns.

"Give me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth". Attributed to Archimedes.

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, Hes oins ristos, amnesthai per ptrs "There is only one omen, to fight for one's country" Hector to Polydamas when the latter was superstitious about a bird omen. The omen was an eagle that flew with a snake in its talons, still alive and struggling to escape. The snake was twisting itself backwards till it struck the bird on the neck, forcing the eagle to let the snake fall. [7] Ek tn hn ouk neu Sine qua non

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"Without things which [one can]not [be] without"

Hellnn promachontes Athnaoi Marathni chrysophrn Mdn estresan dnamin

Fighting in the forefront of the Hellenes, the Athenians at Marathon brought low the Medes' gilded power. Epigram by Simonides on the tomb of the Athenians who died in the Battle of Marathon. Hn oda hti oudn oda "I know one thing, that I know nothing" Socrates, paraphrased from Plato's Apology.
Eagle carrying a snake in its talons

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Epe d' on pntes hsoi te peripolosin phaners ka hsoi phanontai kath' hson n ethlsin theo gnesin skhon, lgei prs autos ho tde t pn gennsas tde
"When all of them, those gods who appear in their revolutions, as well as those other gods who appear at will had come into being, the creator of the universe addressed them the following" :Plato, Timaios, 41a, on gods and the Creator of the universe. ! Herka! "I have found [it]!" While Archimedes was taking a bath, he noticed that the level of the water rose as he got in; having suddenly discovered what is today known as Archimedes' Principle, i.e. that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. This meant that the volume of irregular objects could be calculated with precision, a previously intractable problem. He was so excited that he ran through the streets naked and still wet from his bath, crying "I have found it!".

Zion dpoun pteron "two-legged featherless animal" Plato's definition of man,[8] latinized as "Animal bipes implume" To criticize this definition, Diogenes the Cynic plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy saying: Ots estin o Pltnos nthrpos "Here is Plato's man." In response, Plato added to his definition:

Helmet and the skull of an Athenian hoplite uncovered from the tomb at the Battle of Marathon

Archimedes, a medieval portrait

Platunychon

"Having broad nails" Diogenes Laertios, Lives of eminent philosophers[9] Zion politikn "Man is by nature a political animal", i.e. animal of the polis or social being Aristotle, Politics, book 1:

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370 BC copy of marble statue of Plato

tn ep ts
"Either [with] it [your shield], or on it" Meaning "either you will win the battle, or you will die and then be carried back home on your shield". It was said by Spartan mothers to their sons before they went out to battle to remind them of their bravery and duty to Sparta and Greece. A hoplite could not escape the field of battle unless he tossed away the heavy and cumbersome shield. Therefore losing one's shield meant desertion. (Plutarch, Moralia, 241)

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. H phsis oudn poie hlmata. Natura non facit saltus. "Nature does not make [sudden] jumps." A principle of natural philosophies since Aristotle's time, the exact phrase coming from Carl von Linn. , , . lthon, edon, enksa. Veni, vidi, vici. "I came, I saw, I conquered". With these words, Julius Caesar described his victory against Pharnaces, according to Plutarch.[10]

"Victory or Death : Either With Your Shield or On It"

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Thlassa ka pr ka gyn, kak tra.

"Sea and fire and woman, three evils." , . Thlatta, thlatta. The Sea! The Sea! Thalatta! Thalatta! from Xenophon's Anabasis. It was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches () in Armenia after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against Persian Empire in the year 401 BC. . Thnatos oudn diaphrei tou zn. "Death is no different than life." Thales' philosophical view to the eternal philosophical question about life and death.[11] , , . Thros, trgos, plemos. Summer, harvest, war.
, The Sea! The Sea! painting by Granville Baker

(h)i , . Iatr, therpeuson seautn. "Physician, take care of yourself!" "Medice cura te ipsum." An injunction urging physicians to care for and heal themselves first before dealing with patients. It was made famous in the Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate. The proverb was quoted by Jesus, recorded in the Gospel of Luke chapter 4:23. Luke the Evangelist was himself a physician.

Isos Khrists Theo Hyis Str

"Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." As an acronym: (Ichthys) "fish". . Ischs mou h agp to lao. "The people's love [is] my strength. Motto of the Royal House of Glcksburg.

k, c ; Ka s tknon? "And thou, my child?" or "Even you, my child?"

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Et tu, Brute? On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, a senator and Caesar's adopted son. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly spoke those words and resigned himself to his fate. It is almost certain that Caesar did not actually say these exact words. Ancient sources report that he either died wordlessly or spoke in Greek (Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, LXXXII [4] (http://www.splash.it/latino/?path=/svetonio /de_vita_caesarum/!01!divus_iulius) ). The Latin version was made famous by William Shakespeare, who used it in his play, Julius Caesar (act 3, scene 1,85). Kako krakos kakn n. "From a bad crow, a bad egg" I.e. like father, like son.

Marcus Junius Brutus

Kaks anr makrbios

"A bad man lives long" Kallsti "For the prettiest one", "To the most beautiful" From the myth of the Golden Apple of Discord. , ,

"Kallsti" inscription in the Euboean alphabet

Ktthane, Diagra, ou ka es lympon anabs. "Die, Diagoras you will certainly not ascend Olympus." A Spartan spectator to Diagoras of Rhodes, a former Olympic champion himself, during the 79th Olympiad, when his two sons became Olympic champions and carried him around the stadium on their shoulders.
Krtes ae psestai "Cretans always lie" One of the earliest logical paradoxes attributed to Epimenides of Knossos known as the Epimenides paradox. As Epimenides is a Cretan himself, it leads to the conclusion that the above statement is not true, hence the paradox. ktma es ae "possession for eternity" (Thucydides) Krie elson "Lord have mercy" a very common phrase in Greek Orthodox liturgies, and also used in Greek in the Roman Catholic Mass.

Diagoras of Rhodes carried in the stadium by his two sons

Lthe bisas
"Live hidden" An Epicurean phrase, because of his belief that politics troubles men and doesn't allow them to reach inner peace. So Epicurus suggested that everybody should live "Hidden" far from cities, not even considering a political career. Cicero criticized this idea because, as a stoic, he had a completely different opinion of politics, but the sentiment is echoed by Ovid's statement bene qui latuit bene vixit ("he has lived well who has stayed well hidden", Tristia 3.4.25). Plutarch elaborated in his essay Is the Saying "Live in Obscurity" Right? ( ) 1128c. Lgein t legmena Prodenda, quia prodita or Relata refero "I tell as I was told" or "I report reports" From Herodotus (7,52 etc.): , .

Eg d ophel lgein t legmena, pethestha ge mn ou pantpasi ophel.

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And I must tell what I am told, since I don't have to be persuaded completely.

m .

M gnoito.
"Let it not be!" / "Heaven forbid!" Phrase used by St Paul. . Mtron riston "Moderation is best" On occasions where neither too much nor too little is a good choice, as when eating or celebrating. Cleobulus, according to Diogenes Laertius.[12] . M mo tos kklous tratte. "Do not disturb my circles." The last words attributed to Archimedes. During the raid of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes was busy drawing circles. He was eventually attacked and killed by a Roman soldier. .

M kheron bltiston.
"The least bad [choice] is the best." When there is no good option, one should pick the one that does the least harm. . Mdn gan. "Nothing in excess" Inscription from the temple of Apollo at Delphi . Mlon ts ridos. "Apple of Discord" goddess Eris tossed the Apple of Discord "to the fairest". Paris was the judge of the prettiest one. , ' . Mkti hydroptei, all' oni olgi khr di tn stmakhn sou ka ts pykns sou astheneas. Stop drinking only water, but take a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses. From the I Timothy 5:23 ! Moln lab! "Come take [them]!" King Leonidas of Sparta, in response to King Xerxes of Persia's demand that the Greek army lay down their arms before the Battle of Thermopylae.[13]
Archimedes:

Mystrion ts pstes
"Mystery of faith" Latinized as Mysterium Fidei is a Christian theological term. It means that believing has an unexplainable way of changing one's life. The phrase appears in the Roman Rite without indicating a specific mystery as the word mystery in that phrase has a more general meaning.
The words ( ) as they are inscribed on the marble of the modern era monument at Thermopylae.

n , Na na, o o; "Yes yes, no no;" Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 5

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33 Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord. 34 But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is Gods throne; 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37 Simply let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." .

Nenikkamen.
"We have won." The traditional story relates that the Athenian herald Pheidippides ran the 40 km (25 mi) from the battlefield near the town of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word 'We have won') and collapsed and died on the spot because of exhaustion.

Npson anommata m mnan psin

"Wash the sins not only the face" A palindromic inscription attributed to Gregory of Nazianzus,[14] inscribed in Hagia Sophia and on many church fonts. In the Greek alphabet, the /ps/ sound is rendered by the single letter (psi).
Painting of Pheidippides as he gave word of the Greek victory over Persia at the Battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. Luc-Olivier Merson, 1869

Nos hugis en smati hugie.

Latin: Mens sana in corpore sano "Healthy mind in healthy body." A healthy body can sustain a healthy mind.

x . Xnos n akolothei tos epikhrois nmois. "As a foreigner, follow the laws of that country." Loosely, "Do in Rome as Rome does." Quotation from the works of Menander. Xlinon tekhos "Wooden defensive wall" The "walls" of ships during the Persian Wars.

Trireme during the Persian Wars

(h)o Onops pntos "Wine dark sea" A common Homeric epithet of the sea, on which many articles have been written. () Hper dei dexai. (abbreviated as OED) "Quod erat demonstrandum" "what was required to be proved" Used by early mathematicians including Euclid (Elements, 1.4), Aristotle (APo.90b34) and Archimedes, written at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument, to signify the proof as complete. Later it was latinized as "QED" or the Halmos tombstone box symbol. , O me peseis, kn me pesis "You will not convince me even if you do convince me" Ou phronts Hippokledi. "Hippocleides doesn't care." From a story in Herodotus (6.129), in which Hippocleides loses the chance to marry Cleisthenes' daughter after getting drunk and

wine dark sea

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dancing on his head. Herodotus says the phrase was a common expression in his own day. ' Otis emo g' noma. "My name is Nobody". Odysseus to Polyphemus when asked what his name was. (Homer, Odyssey, ix, 366).

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Odysseus, 2nd century BC statue

"ever seeking the truth" Diogenes Laertius, Lives of eminent philosophers[15] a characteristic of Pyrrhonism. An abbreviated form, (seek the truth), is a motto of the Geal family. , , ' , .

Pntote zeten tn altheian

Papa, Mardnie, koous ep' ndras gages makhsomnous hmas, ho ou per khrmtn tn agna poientai all per arets.
"Good heavens! Mardonius, what kind of men have brought us to fight against? Men who do not compete for possessions, but for honour." Spontaneous response of Tigranes, a Persian general (who seemed to be speaking Greek), while Xerxes was interrogating some Arcadians after the Battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes asked why there were so few Greek men defending the Thermopylae. The answer was "All the other men are participating in the Olympic Games". And when asked "What is the prize for the winner?", "An olive-wreath" came the answer. Herodotus, The Histories[16]

Kotinos, the prize for the winner at the Ancient Olympic Games.

Pthei mthos
"(There is) learning in suffering/experience" Aeschylus, Agamemnon - I also like the variant "suffering is learning/learning is suffering." , '

Pmpe d min Lyknde, pren d' h ge smata lygr grpsas en pnaki ptykti thmophthra poll
"So he sent him to Lycia, and gave (him) terrible signs/letters he had engraved these on a folded tablet, they were many and life-destroying." Homer, Iliad 6.168-9 - This passage shows that Homer actually knew the verb (inscribe, later write).[17] , , Pstis, elps, agp "Faith, hope, (and) love." (1 Corinthians, 13, 13.) Plemos pntn mn patr esti "War is the father of all" Heraclitus , , Px, lx, dx "With fists, kicks, and bites" = fist, = kick, = bite Epigram describing how laypersons were chased away from the Eleusinian Mysteries.

rh

Rhododktylos s
"Rosy-fingered Dawn." This phrase occurs frequently in the Homeric poems referring to Eos, the Titanic goddess of the dawn. Eos opened the gates of heaven so that Helios could ride his chariot across the sky every day.

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s Spede brads. "Hasten slowly" (cf. Latin festina lente), "less haste, more speed". Sn Athni ka khera kinei. "Along with Athena, move also your hand" cf. the English "God helps those who help themselves."

t . T pnta rhe ka oudn mnei. "Everything flows, nothing stands still." Heraclitus Plato, in his dialogue Cratylus, recounts Heraclitus' saying: T nta inai te pnta ka mnein oudn "[That] things that exist move and nothing remains still",[18] which he expands: Pnta khre ka oudn mnei ka ds es tn autn potamn ouk n embas "All things move and nothing remains still, and you cannot step twice into the same stream".[19]

Rosy-fingered dawn

, . Td' est Pelopnnsos, ouk Ina. "Here is Peloponnesus, not Ionia" Inscription written on a pillar erected by Theseus on the Isthmus of Corinth facing towards the West, i.e. towards the Peloponnese.[20] , . Td' oukh Pelopnnsos, all' Ina. "Here is not Peloponnesus, but Ionia" inscription as per above, but towards East, i.e. towards Attica. , ' , , ' .

Tn d megaln peiron hyph' hs h megl perikhetai kkl thlatta, tn mn lln latton apkhei, ts d' gygs per pentakiskhilous stadous.
"The great continent, by which the great sea is surrounded on all sides, lies less distant from the others, but about five thousand stadia from Ogygia." Plutarch on the great continent west of the Atlantic Ocean (From: On the Face in the Moon, 941 B) ; . T dskolon? T eautn gnnai. "What is hard? To know thyself." attributed (among other sages) to Thales, according to Pausanias [21] ; Ti estin ho mian ekhon phnn tetrapoun kai dipoun kai tripoun ginetai? "What is that which has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and threefooted?." The famous riddle of the Sphinx. Oedipus solved the riddle correctly by answering: Man: as an infant, he crawls on fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick.[22] In allegorical terms it also describes the development of man: from a primitive state (four-footed animal), to self-sustained (two-footed) and finally to stable and mature (see also tripod). ; . T ekolon? T lli hypotthesthai. "What is easy? To advise another." Thales ; . T kainn ei tetheamnos? Gronta trannon. "What is the strangest thing to see? "An aged tyrant." Thales

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; . , . T kointaton? Elps. Ka gr hos llo mdn, at parst. "What is quite common? Hope. When all is gone, there is still hope. Literally: "Because even to those who have nothing else, it is still nearby." Thales ; . . T tkhiston? Nos. Di pants gr trkhei. "What is the fastest? The mind. It travels through everything." Thales , ; ", . T prteron gegnoi, nx hmra? nx, mii hmraa prteron. "Which is older, day or night? "Night is the older, by one day." Thales , , . T gr hd, en pol, ou t ge hd. "A sweet thing tasted too often is no longer sweet." . T ds examarten ouk andrs sopho. "To commit the same sin twice [is] not [a sign] of a wise man." . T peprmnon phygen adnaton. "It's impossible to escape from what is destined."

Bust of Thales, one of the seven Sages of Greece

Oedipus and the sphinx. On an Attic red-figure kylix

hy

Hyis monogens "Only-begotten son" Unigenitus (named for its Latin opening words Unigenitus dei filius, or "Only-begotten son of God") is an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713.
Hsteron prteron "The latter one first" Rhetorical device in which the most important action is placed first, even though it happens after the other action. The standard example comes from the Aeneid of Virgil (2.353): Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus "Let us die, and charge into the thick of the fight".

ph Phobo tos Danaos ka dra phrontas. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." Virgil's Aeneid (II, 49) "Fear the Danaans (Greeks), even when bearing gifts." King Priam decides to take the abandoned by the Danaans Trojan Horse into the walls of Troy. In an effort to stop him, Laocon the priest of Poseidon warns of the plot using according to Virgil, the well known verses from the Aeneid reading (Quidquid id est) timeo Danaos et dona ferents. But two sea serpents sent by Athena strangle Laocon and his sons. Thus, the Trojan Horse is brought into the city and Troy is sacked. An expression to urge cautiousness when an enemy acts as a friend. Literally: don't "swallow the bait".[23]

Phoinika grmmata

Maquette Trojan Horse, used in Troy film, a gift from Brad Pitt to the Turkish town Canakkale.

"Phoenician letters" The Phoenician prince Cadmus was generally accredited by Greeks like Herodotus[24] with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet several centuries before the Trojan war, around 2000 BC.[25]

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kh , Khare, autokrtor; hoi apolomeno se aspazmetha. "Hail, Emperor; we who are about to perish salute you." Latin: Ave Caesar morituri te salutant. The first literary attestation of the Latin is in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, 5 (Divus Claudius), 21, 6, Khalep t kal "The good/beautiful things [are] difficult [to attain]." "Naught without labor." Cf. Plato, Republic 4, 435c.

ps Psykhs iatreon. "Hospital of the soul" The Library of Alexandria, also known as the Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world. A story concerns how its collection grew so large: by decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender any form of written media in any language in their possession which were listed under the heading "books of the ships". These writings were then swiftly copied by official scribes. Sometimes the copies were so precise that the originals were put into the library and the copies were delivered to the unsuspecting previous owners. This process also helped to create a reservoir of books in the relatively new city. The phrase is used in reverse as as a motto for Carolina Rediviva, a university library in Uppsala, and is echoed in the motto of the American Philological Association, " " ("literature is the soul's physician").

The Ancient Library of Alexandria.

(h) , / . xen, angllein Lakedaimonois hti tide / kemetha tos kenn rhmasi

peithmenoi.

"Stranger, tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their laws." Epigram , a single elegiac couplet by Simonides on the dead of Thermopylae. . dinen ros ka teke mn. "A mountain had labour pains and a mouse was born" Epitaph at the Thermopylae Horace wrote Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus;[26] "the mountains will labour, a ridiculous mouse will be born." Horace here meant to poke fun at heroic labours producing meager results; his line is also an allusion to one of Aesop's fables, The Mountain in Labour. The title to Shakespeare's play, Much Ado about Nothing, expresses a similar sentiment. Hs en lli ksmi "As if in another world" Proverb quoted by Desiderius Erasmus in his Adagia.

See also
English words of Greek origin Greek language List of Greek words with English derivatives List of Latin phrases

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Notes
1. ^ (Symposiacs Problem VIII, 2 [1] (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plutarch/symposiacs/chapter8.html#section80) , (in Greek) Quaestiones Convivales (718b-)718c @PerseusProject [2] (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0311%3Astephpage%3D718c) ,(in English) Quaestiones Convivales 8.2.1 @PerseusProject [3] (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0312%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D1) . Note: All three references , Symposiacs Problem VIII-2, Quaestiones Convivales (718b-)718c and Quaestiones Convivales 8.2.1 point to the same work and passage) 2. ^ Plutarch, Alexander, 14.3 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0129%3Achapter%3D14%3Asection%3D3) 3. ^ (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=glau/c) 4. ^ Aristophanes, The Birds, 302 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+301& fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0025) 5. ^ (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=deimo/s) . Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A GreekEnglish Lexicon at Perseus Project 6. ^ (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=fo/bos) in Liddell and Scott 7. ^ Homer, Iliad 12.243 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0217:book=12:card=243) 8. ^ Plato, Statesman 266e (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0172%3Atext%3DStat.%3Asection%3D266e) 9. ^ Diogenes Laertios, Lives of eminent philosophers Chapter 2.40 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D2) 10. ^ Plutarch, Caesar Plut. Caes. 50.2 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0130%3Achapter%3D50%3Asection%3D2) 11. ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0257%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D1) 12. ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0257%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D6) . 13. ^ Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, 51.11 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0195%3Achapter%3D51%3Asection%3D11) 14. ^ Alex Preminger, Terry V.F. Brogan, and Frank J. Warnke, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-691-02123-6, p. 874. 15. ^ Diogenes Laertius, Lives of eminent philosophers Chapter 9.11 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+9.11& fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258) 16. ^ Herodotus, The Histories Hdt. 8.26 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+8.26& fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126) 17. ^ Hom. Il. 6.156 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text;jsessionid=0A9C835E67118467F7E8A7D81C9FF2DA?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D156) 18. ^ Plato, Cratylus, Plat. Crat. 401d (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0171%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Asection%3D401d) 19. ^ Plato, Cratylus Plat. Crat. 402a (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0171%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Asection%3D402a) 20. ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives , Theseus, Plut. Thes. 25 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0075%3Achapter%3D25) 21. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, Paus. 10.24 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0159%3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D24) 22. ^ Apollodorus, Library Apollod. 3.5.8 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper /text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D5%3Asection%3D8) 23. ^ Meaning, "do not completely accept something, especially an offer that is a trick or way of getting something from you. See also Definition of swallow the bait (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/swallow-the-bait) 24. ^ Herodotus, Histories, Book V, 58 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=& loc=5.58.1) . 25. ^ Herodotus. Histories, Book II, 2.145 (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+2.145& fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126) 26. ^ Horace, Ars Poetica, l. 139

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