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List of Greek phrases
Αα
(h)a - Ageōmétrētos mēdeìs eisítō.
- "Let no one untrained in geometry enter."
- Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy (quoted in Elias' commentary on Aristotle's Categories (Eliae in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis categorias commentaria, CAG XVIII.1, Berlin 1900, p. [https://archive.org/stream/inporphyriiisago00elia#page/118/mode/2up 118].13–19)).
- Aeì Libýē phérei ti kakón / kainón.
- "Libya always bears something evil / new", Aristotle, Historia Animalium.
- Compare Latin Ex Africa semper aliquid novi "From Africa always something new", Pliny.
- Aeì koloiòs parà koloiôi hizánei.
- "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw"
- Similar to English "birds of a feather flock together."
- Aei ho theos geōmetreî.
- "God always geometrizes", Plato
- Plutarch elaborated on this phrase in his essay Πῶς Πλάτων ἔλεγε τὸν θεὸν ἀεί γεωμετρεῖν "What is Plato’s meaning when he says that god always applies geometry". Based on the phrase of Plato, above, a present day mnemonic for π (pi) was derived:
- Aeì ho theòs ho mégas geōmetreî tò sýmpan.
- "Always the great god applies geometry to the universe"
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