Graecum est; non legitur Phrase
Meaning:
It is Greek (and therefore) it cannot be read.
Comment
Most commonly from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar where Casca couldn't explain to Cassius what Cicero was saying because he was speaking Greek. The more common colloquialism would be: It's all Greek to me.
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