Greek calends


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1.A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"This most negative of developments vindicates our warnings that if the government and DISY were unable to introduce a multi-payer system, to serve the interests of a handful of private insurance companies, they would refer the NHS to the Greek Calends," spokesman Yiorgos Loucaides said.
As the ancient Romans said: "ad calendas graecas", on the Greek Calends. (In the Roman calendar, the Calends were the first days of the month - the Greek calendar had no Calends.)
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