page_title: List of Greek phrases
section_title: Ψψ
hierarchical_section_title: List of Greek phrases / Ψψ
caption_attribution_description: English: Artistic Rendering of the Library of Alexandria, based on some archaeological evidence.
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  ἀγεωμέτρητος μηδεὶς εἰσίτω.
  Ageōmétrētos mēdeìs eisítō.
  "Let no one untrained in geometry enter."
  Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy.
  ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν
  Aeì Libýē phérei ti kainón.
  "Libya always bears something new", Aristotle, Historia Animalium.
  Compare Latin Ex Africa semper aliquid novi "From Africa always something new", Pliny.
  ἀεὶ κολοιὸς παρὰ κολοιῷ ἱζάνει
  Aeì koloiòs parà koloiôi hizánei.
  "A jackdaw is always found near a jackdaw"
  Similar to English "birds of a feather flock together."
  ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς γεωμετρεῖ
  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 was derived:
  ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς ὁ μέγας γεωμετρεῖ τὸ σύμπαν
  Aeì ho theòs ho mégas geōmetreî tò sýmpan.
  Always the great God applies geometry to the universe
  ἀετοῦ γῆρας, κορυδοῦ νεότης
  Aetoû gêras, korydoû neótēs.
  "An eagle's old age a sparrow's youth".
  αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν
  aièn aristeúein
  “Ever to Excel“
  Motto of the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Academy, and Boston College.
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  ψυχῆς ἰατρεῖον
  Psykhês iatreîon.
  "Hospital of the soul"
  The Library of Alexandria, also known as the Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the world.
  The phrase is used in reverse as ἰατρεῖον ψυχῆς as a motto for Carolina Rediviva, a university library in Uppsala, and is echoed in the motto of the American Philological Association, "ψυχῆς ἰατρὸς τὰ γράμματα" ("literature is the soul's physician").
caption: The Ancient Library of Alexandria
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