page_title: List of Greek phrases
section_title: Θθ
hierarchical_section_title: List of Greek phrases / Θθ
caption_attribution_description: English: Thálatta! Thálatta! (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα!; "The Sea! The Sea!"), from the Anabasis of Xenophon. Heroic march of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries.
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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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  θάλασσα καὶ πῦρ καὶ γυνή, κακὰ τρία
  Thálassa kaì pŷr kaì gynḗ, kakà tría.
  "Sea and fire and woman, three evils."
  θάλαττα, θάλαττα.
  Thálatta, thálatta.
  “The Sea! The Sea!“
  Thalatta! Thalatta! from Xenophon's Anabasis. It was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) in Armenia after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against Persian Empire in the year 401 BC.
  θάνατος οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ ζῆν.
  Thánatos oudèn diaphérei tou zên.
  "Death is no different than life."
  Thales' philosophical view to the eternal philosophical question about life and death.
caption: Θάλαττα, θάλαττα — “The Sea! The Sea!“ — painting by Granville Baker; from a 1901 issue of LIFE magazine
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