"Look a (gift) horse in the mouth"

[Dan Goncharoff]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> He's saying that, to him, heretofore, the
> quintessential "gift horse" has been the Trojan horse - why is it
> called that and not the "*Greek* horse," I've always wondered?
>

You and Alexander Pope...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ut4NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22trojan+horse%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ow09UeDCHe670QGj3IGoDQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22trojan%20horse%22&f=false

The best story I have heard credits it to a Roman author Cincius who
referred to the Trojan pig, stuffed with rabbit and fowl like the horse was
stuffed with soldiers.

DanG

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