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You won, Galilean!
Flavius Claudius Julian
Phraseologism: You won, Galilean!
Meaning: It is used as a playfully ironic form of admitting oneself defeated.
Origin: According to Christian tradition, the dying cry of the Roman emperor (331-363) Julian the Apostate, addressed to Jesus Christ. Julian abandoned Christianity, which had already been accepted as the state religion earlier (calling it contemptuously "Galileanism" - after the name of the province of Galilee, where Jesus came from) and made an attempt to return to traditional Roman polytheism. The emperor even wrote several polemical writings directed against the new religion, which aroused hatred for him from the Christians, who called Julian an "apostate." And later, historians of the Christian Church, in particular Theodoret (c. 390-458), created a legend that Julian, mortally wounded in a battle with the Persians, exclaimed before his death: "You won, Galilean!" In fact, as historians point out, the emperor Julian the Apostate remained a staunch opponent of the new religion and a supporter of the Roman pagan cult until the end of his days. The phrase is better known thanks to A. I. Herzen, who used it in a well-known article dedicated to Alexander II in connection with the upcoming liberation of the peasants from serfdom. The article was published in A. I. Herzen's magazine The Bell (1858, No. 9), published in London, under the heading "Three Years Later".
Random phraseology:
The situation is worse than the governor's.
Meaning:
About an extremely difficult, unpleasant situation (jokingly).
Origin:
There are several versions of the origin of the turnover: 1) the expression is taken from horse-breeding slang. The governor there was called a male probe, who was allowed to the mare to annoy her before mating with a thoroughbred sire. Phraseologism arose as a result of a punning rethinking by homonymous similarity, 2) the expression goes back to the decree of Paul I on the recovery of losses in the event of a mail robbery from the governor of this province, issued by him in 1800 in connection with a major mail robbery in the Kostroma province. The decree caused a real stir among the governors, 3. According to the author of the book "The Winged Word" (1930) S. G. Zaimonsky, this "image was inspired by the position of Don Quixote's squire. Sancho Panza, during his ill-fated governorship. The position of Russian governors is hardly was so bleak as to suggest such an aphorism." |
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