Cicero Quote by Plutarch

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of…

— Dimitri Gutas

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

— John Crowe Ransom

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Ian, your Latin would disgrace a dog! And as for the rest, ye havena got enough understanding of Greek to tell the difference between…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the…

— M.C. Scott

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

— Seth Shostak

“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”

— Anonymous

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Jove, or Jupiter, was the Roman counterpart of the Greek's Zeus, and like Zeus was regarded as chief among the gods. When the Romans…

— Merriam-Webster