英语词汇never speak ill or bad of the dead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	never speak ill or bad of the dead
词源	never speak ill (or bad) of the dead. Also heard as never speak evil of the dead, this expression wasn’t recorded in En- glish until the 16th century, but in Latin it dates back to the sixth century b.c., when it appeared as say nothing of the dead but what is good. This ancient belief and saying is believed to have been uttered by the Spartan ephor (magistrate) Chilon, one of the seven sages of greece.
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