English expressions from ancient times

[betgo]

All roads lead to Rome
When in Rome do like the Romans

 

[duncanness]

With your shield--on on it (Sparta)
To be between Scylla & Charybdis; Open Pandora's box; Achilles heel (all Greek)

 

[Tercios Espanoles]

Piling Pelion on Ossa (Heaping troubles upon troubles). From the Greek myth.

 

[Naomasa298]

To be between Scylla & Charybdis

No one says that anymore though. These days, it's between a rock and a "hard place" (what an utterly ludicrous saying that is).

 

[Tulius]

No one says that anymore though. These days, it's between a rock and a "hard place" (what an utterly ludicrous saying that is).

One Portuguese (and Spanish) equivalent would be: “To be between the sword and the wall”. Probably there is also in English.

 

[Naomasa298]

One Portuguese (and Spanish) equivalent would be: “To be between the sword and the wall”. Probably there is also in English.

There used to be the expression "Between the devil and the deep blue sea".

 

[Willempie]

Achilles heel and Midas' touch.

Beyond the pale I think is referring to the area too far from Dublin to be under English control and thus savage country

 

[Scaeva]

Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) is from Horace

In Vino Vertitas (In Wine There is Truth) is from Pliny the Elder

 

[duncanness]

Cloud Cockoo Land (Aristophanes)

 

[duncanness]

Is that where Harvard found its motto?