__________________ I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and hand it to him.
it means know thyself, the oracle had it hanging above the kitchen door in her apartment in the matrix. hey kes, i thought you'd know a little latin since portugese and spanish are closest thing to latin other than italian. oh well.
Are you sure it's in Latin? It was the plaque outside the temple at Delphi in Ancient Greece. Yeah, the Oracle at Delphi. Sometimes I wonder how the W. Bros managed to get a storyline in around all the hidden references...
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__________________ "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
- Voltaire (attributed)
Yes the Greek for know thyself is gnothi s'ayton or "γνώθι σ'εαυτόν". It was engraved on the oracle of Delphi - The center of the known world at that time - were Pythia prophesied the future chewing peppermint leafs .
The roman civilization which was founded and copied from the ancient Greek civilization translated it into the latin Fraze.
The exact translation from Greek means "knowledge in your self".
Yeah, from what I know the Etruscans were the first 'proper' European 'civilised culture' and were situated in and around Greece. They spread to Italy and became Romans, and the Etruscans that stayed became Greeks.
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