When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.

When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When this was translated into Greek in the last few centuries BCE, Kings was joined with Samuel in a four-part work called the Book of Kingdoms.

When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms.

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

When Justin quotes the synoptic Gospels, he tends to do so in a harmonised form, and Helmut Koester and others conclude that Justin must have possessed a Greek harmony text of Matthew, Luke and Mark.

When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of / h /, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of / h /.

When war broke out between Russia and the Ottomans in 1877, Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poor, and too concerned of British intervention, to officially enter the war.

When the Romans encountered the Greek geographers they used Iberia poetically and spoke of the Iberi.

When combined with the Greek άγω ( ago ) to " lead ," the construed meaning is " to lead the entertainer ” and the transliteration from the Greek leads to the word Diaskagogy di • as • ka • go • gy-goj-ee which could be used to describe Preschool education.

When they reached Astrakhan, Uzbeg Khan had just given permission for one of his pregnant wives, Princess Bayalun, a daughter of Greek Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos, to return to her home city of Constantinople to give birth.

When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back.

When addressing events after 220 BC, he conferred with Greek and Roman historians to acquire credible sources of information, but rarely did he name those sources.

When deriving English words from their Greek or Latin roots the gender specific ending ( in this case "- on ," which indicates the word is neuter ) is normally dropped, using only the root of the word in the derivation.

When the centre of the Empire was moved to the Greek East in the 4th century, many legal concepts of Greek origin appeared in the official Roman legislation.

When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.

When Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister at the time, was asked if the Greek army should move towards Thessaloniki or Monastir ( now Bitola, Republic of Macedonia ), Venizelos replied " Salonique à tout prix!

When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.

When Robert Hooke discovered Hooke's law in 1660, he first published it in anagram form, ceiiinosssttuv, for ut tensio, sic vis ( Latin: as the tension, so the force ).

When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it chose the motto Urbs in Horto, a Latin phrase which translates into English as " City in a Garden ".

When the Council of Trent listed the books included in the canon, it qualified the books as being " entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition ".

" When land replaced currency as the primary store of value, the Germanic word * fehu-ôd replaced the Latin word beneficium.

When the Franks invaded the Roman territories ( from the end of the 4th century and well into the 5th century ) they brought their language with them and Celtic and Latin were replaced by Old Dutch.

When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean sea began to be called Mare Nostrum ( Latin: " Our Sea ") by the Romans.

When Columbus took possession of the island in 1492 he named it Hispana in Latin and La Isla Española, meaning " The Spanish Island ", in Spanish.

Another author explains, " When Saint Jerome translated the Old Testament into Latin, he thought no one but Christ should glow with rays of light — so he advanced the secondary translation.

When she was 9 years old, she composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to some of the most distinguished intellectuals of the day.

When an alphabet is borrowed to represent a different language than that for which it originally developed ( as has been done with the Latin alphabet for many languages in Europe and elsewhere or Japanese Katakana being used for foreign words ), it often proves to be defective in representing the new language's phonemes.

When Jerome undertook the revision of the Old Latin translations of the Septuagint, he checked the Septuagint against the Hebrew texts that were then available.

When abbreviated, the university motto becomes FIONIA, the Latin name for Funen.

When Pope Pius V made the Roman Missal mandatory for all Catholics of the Latin Rite, he permitted the continuance of other forms of celebrating Mass that had an antiquity of at least two centuries.

When translated into Latin, this name was thought to refer to the plant Erysimum officinale, and so was translated into a Latin name for this plant,.

When Britain gained formal control over what is now Guyana in 1814, it also became involved in one of Latin America's most persistent border disputes.

When the Lombards entered Italy, the Latin chroniclers called their war leaders duces in the old fashion.

When he was solemnly professed in 1622, Claver signed his final profession document in Latin as: Petrus Claver, aethiopum semper servus ( Peter Claver, servant of the Africans forever ).