Graecum est; non legitur Phrase
Meaning:
It is Greek (and therefore) it cannot be read.
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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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