Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.

Poets that lasting marble seek

Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller (1605-1687): Of English Verse.

Above any Greek or Roman name.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.

Small Latin, and less Greek.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637): To the Memory of Shakespeare.

Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek

As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficile

Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 51.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2.