- ("until the
Gr**** calends") was a
colloquial expression for
postponing something forever. This
phrase survived for many
centuries in
Gr**** (
Gr****: εἰς τὰς...
- ad
kalendas graecas ("to the
Gr**** Kalends")
signified indefinite postponement,
since the
Gr**** calendar had no
Calends period; also **** mula peperit...
- "on horses' Easter". The
Latin expression ad
kalendas graecas "to the
Gr**** calends" The
German "Wenn
Schweine fliegen können!" is
identical with the English...
- et cetera. Some of the
phrases are
themselves translations of
Gr**** phrases, as
Gr**** rhetoric and
literature reached its peak
centuries before the rise...
-
survived only in a few
fossilized forms such as Kalendae, "the
calends".
After Gr**** words were
taken into Latin, the
Kappa was
transliterated as a C...
-
Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey)
preached a
sermon against the
Feast of
Calends ("this
foolish and
harmful delight") that
describes the role of the mock...
-
someone more like the
castrated boy.
Shortly before Nero's death,
during the
Calends festival,
Sporus presented Nero with a ring
bearing a
gemstone depicting...
-
common Latin phrases. Some of the
phrases are
themselves translations of
Gr**** phrases. ****ertions, such as
those by
Bryan A.
Garner in Garner's Modern...
-
college during the
consulship of
Glabrio and
Homulus ten days
before the
Calends of September. CIL XIII, 07661; E.
Courtney (1995)
reads the
original dative...
- Christ,
stating that the "Lord
Jesus Christ was born
eight days
before the
calends of January" (that is, on December 25).
Since the 12th century,
there have...