| 词汇 | greek and roman proverbs |
| 词源 | Greek and Roman proverbs. The words of ancient Greek and Roman writers have lasted for thousands of years, many of them becoming proverbial in English and other languages. Here are just a few such proverbs: “God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”— Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes “None love the messenger who brings bad news.”—So- phocles, Antigone “Leave no stone unturned.”—Euripides, Heracleidae “I laughed tivll I cried.”—Aristophanes, The Frogs “Old age is but a second childhood.”—Aristophanes, The Frogs “Conscience makes cowards of us all.”—Menander, uni- dentified fragment “You knew not how to live in clover.”—Menander, The Girl From Samos “Whom the gods love, die young.”—Menander, uniden- tified fragment “Nothing in excess.”—Terence, Andria “In the bloom of youth.”—Terence, Andria |
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英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。