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City and world

Ancient Rome

Phraseologism: City and world.

Meaning: It is used in cases when they want to emphasize the declarative nature of some statement or ironically mark some broadcast statement.

Origin: The expression is a translation of the Latin "Urbi et orbi". The comparison of the city, i.e. Rome, and the world goes back to the writers of antiquity. Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) in his Fasti (2, 684) wrote that "other peoples have a country with certain borders, only the Romans have the same concepts of the city and the world." Cicero (106-43 BC) in the 1st speech against Catalina spoke of people thinking "not only about the death of the city, but also about the death of the world." The doctrine of the world significance of Rome was also assimilated by Catholic Rome. Ceremony for the election of a new pope at the end of the XNUMXth and beginning of the XNUMXth century. ordered that, after being elected in a conclave, one of the cardinals dressed the chosen one with a mantle, saying the following phrase: "I dress you with Roman papal dignity, so that you stand before the city and the world" (Buchmann, Gefliigelte Worte).

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Narcissus.

Meaning:

A common noun for narcissistic, self-satisfied people.

Origin:

From ancient Greek mythology. As the Roman poet Ovid narrates in his Metamorphoses, one day Narcissus, a handsome young man, the son of the river god Cephis and the nymph Leiriope, who had never loved anyone else, bent over a stream and, seeing his reflection in it, fell in love with himself. Since Narcissus could not connect with his "beloved", he died of anguish, and his body turned into a flower. The title of one of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's satires is "The New Narcissus, or In Love With Himself".

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