List of Greek phrases

List of Greek Phrases/Proverbs

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Αα

(h)a

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Ageōmetrētos mēdeis eisitō.
"Let no-one without knowledge of geometry enter". Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy (quoted in Elias' coommentary on Aristotle's Categories.

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Aei Libyē pherei ti kakon / kainon.
"Libya always bears something evil / new", Aristotle, Historia Animailum. (Cf. Latin Ex Africa semper aliquid novi, "From Africa always something new".)

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Aei koloios para koloiōi hizanei.
"A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw", i.e. birds of a kind flock together.

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Aëtou gēras, korudou neotēs.
"An eagle's old age (is worth) a sparrow's youth".

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Anankāi d'oude theoi makhontai.
"Even the Gods do not fight necessity", Simonides, 8, 20.

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Anthrōpos metron.
"Man the measure (of all things)", motto of Protagoras.

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Hapax legomenon.
"Once said", i.e. a word that only occurs once in a text or body of literature.

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Ariston men hydōr.
"Greatest however is water", Pindar, Olymp. 1, 1. Used as the insription over the Pump Room at Bath.

Ββ

b

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Brōma theōn.
"Food of the gods" — allegedly said by Nero of the poisoned mushrooms with which his mother Agrippina the younger murdered Claudius.

Γγ

g

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Glauk’ Athēnazde / Glauk’ eis Athēnas.
"Owls to Athens", i.e. coals to Newcastle, ice to the Eskimos.

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Gnōthi seauton.
"Know thyself" — the motto over the entrance to the temple of Apollo at Delphi.

Δδ

d

Εε

(h)e

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Hen oida hoti ouden oida
"I know one thing, that I know nothing", (Socrates in Plato's Apology)

Ζζ

z

Ηη

(h)ē

Θθ

th

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Thalassa kai pūr kai gunē, kaka tria.
"Sea and fire and woman, three evils."

Ιι

(h)i

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Iēsous Christos Theou Huios Sōtēr
"Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." As an acronym: ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthys) — "fish".

Κκ

k, c

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Kakou korakos kakon ōön.
"From a bad crow, a bad egg", i.e. like father, like son.

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Kakos anêr makrobios
"A bad man lives long"

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Kallistēi
"For the prettiest one", "To the most beautiful", from the myth of the golden apple.

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Kurie eleēson.
"Lord have mercy" — a very common phrase in Greek Orthodox liturgies, and also used in Greek (but transliterated as kyrie eleison) in the Roman Catholic Mass.

Λλ

l

Λάθε βιώσας

Lathe biosas
"Live in obscurity", an Epicurean phrase.

Μμ

m

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Mē genoito.
"Let it not be!" / "Heaven forfend!" — phrase used frequently by St Paul.

Νν

n

Ξξ

x

Οο

(h)o

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Ou phrontis Hippokleidēi.
"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 dancing on his head. Herodotus says the phrase was a common expression in his own day.

Ππ

p

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Pistis, elpis, agapē
"Faith, hope, (and) charity." (1 Corinthians, 13, 13.)

Ρρ

r(h)

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Rhododaktylos Ēōs
"Rosy-fingered dawn." Occurs frequently in the Homeric poems.

Σσ

s

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Speude bradeōs.
"Hasten slowly" (cf. Latin festina lente), "less haste, more speed".

Ττ

t

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To gar hēdu, ean polu, ou ti ge hēdu.
"A sweet thing tasted too often is no longer sweet."

Υυ

(h)u, (h)y

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Hysteron proteron
"The latter one first".

Φφ

ph

Χχ

kh, ch

Ψψ

ps

Ωω

(h)ō

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