Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
In a wonderful letter from the 19th century heaping calumny on American heads for the disgraceful levity with which we disregard our debts, one paragraph ended "In every grammer school of the world *ad Graecas calendas* is translated: The American Dividends." Can anyone tell me what the latin tag is referring to? Shane?
Michael
It means, generally, "doomsday," "on a cold day in Hell," something like that. Literally, "at the Greek calends," calends being the first day of the Roman calendar. The Greeks didn't have a calends in their calendar. I always heard it, "ad calends graecas," but my Latin's not fresh to say the least. jks
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