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Thanks again, cougr. I don’t think in my original thread that I meant to criticise the Olympian gods’ frivolity but I did compare theirs...

Thanks, all for their very helpful comments and suggestions. As is now the case in England and America several mums or moms use the same...

Blessed I-don't-give-a-toss! Not literary but fits the bill! Thanks, m_a_a!

Thanks, Νωβελίσσιμε! Also interesting and a relevant citation. The gods of Rome are not the same as the gods of Ancient Greece, despite...

Ίσως… Πάντως είναι ενδιαφέρουσα έννοια. Βρήκα αυτή την ανάλυση: Many interactions among the gods in the Iliad have the same kind of...

A few extra (fairly liberal) suggestions: cringe nausey = κριντζ μέχρι αηδίας, κριντζ να σου γυρνάνε τ' άντερα, εμετικό κριντζ, or...

Περί ίου (όχι Ίου, αν και έγινε κι αυτή κρίντζι) από το νήμα για το ουάου:

I think you may need to keep the term "ακροπτερύγιο" in your translation. "Πτέρυγα" and "φτερό" in the context of aircraft refer to the...

What would we do without cougr! Thanks yet again. The idea of transcendence and sublimity is difficult to render into many languages! It...

Karl Reinhardt in a memorable phrase about the Greek gods in Homer’s Iliad talks of them as displaying—in a wonderful oxymoron--‘a...

Thanks again, cougr!

Thanks, as ever, cougr! BTW is there a Greek interjection for the sound you make when being sick? Μπλίαχ;🤢

I'm not sure about the nausy bit (perhaps "αναγούλα" or "ναυτία" which mean "nausea" will do) but the terms "κριντζ" and "κριντζιά"...

I have just heard someone, prominent in the Roman Catholic Church describing Pope Francis watching a dance performed in front of the...

Για το "influence peddling", προσθέτω τα: άσκηση αθέμιτης επιρροής (έναντι ανταλλάγματος)...