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Verbum Græcum

By E. M. B.

Who was the author of "Like the verbum Græcum Spermagoraiolekitholukanopolides, Words that should only be said upon holidays, When one has nothing else to do." The verbum Græcum itself is in Aristophanes' Lysistrata , 457.

Topics: Greek Literature, Classical Studies, Philology