Danaōs et dōna ferentēs, paraphrased in English as "I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts", is a Latin phrase from Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by...
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Greeks bearing gifts may refer to: The prophecy of Laocoön, priest of Troy, who in Virgil's Aeneid, tells his countrymen to "Beware of Greeks bearing...
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"Beware Greeks bearing gifts" refers to the Trojan horse described in Virgil's The Aeneid. Doux, Billie (26 August 2009). "Torchwood: Greeks Bearing Gifts"...
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Trojan War in literature and the arts (category Ancient Greece in art and culture)
on BBC Radio 4 in 1981. The Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts" (aired 15 January 1996) involves Xena and Gabrielle arriving...
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wear out than rust out[b] Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid) Big fish eat little fish[a] Birds of a feather (flock together)[a]...
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1968: A Futuristic Fairy Tale (1968) Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts (1968) The Handwriting On the Wall (The Sounds Of Graffiti) (1968) Pat McCormick Tells...
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La Grande Bouffe (category Films originally rejected by the British Board of Film Classification)
politely rejects with the phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" ("Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"), quoting Virgil. Once alone, the four begin their binge. In...
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Laocoön (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
the Greeks even bearing gifts.] This quote is the source of the saying: "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." In Sophocles, however, he was a priest of Apollo...
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themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient...
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Reginald Fessenden (category IEEE Medal of Honor recipients)
proverb "beware of Greeks bearing gifts". The Scott Medal came under additional suspicion because it had been awarded at the suggestion of Westinghouse...
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