Ad Kalendas Graecas Definition
ad kalendas Graecas
Latin
Etymology
Attributed by Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars to Caesar Augustus. The kalends (also written calends) were specific days of the Roman calendar (the first of the month), not of the Greek, and so the “Greek Kalends” would never occur.
Idiom
ad kalendas Graecas
- (literally) On the Greek day of the calends.
- (idiomatic) never; "when pigs fly".
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