Thread: How do you say "The Greeks had a word for it"?

Originally Posted by it-ogo

TOM: Моя девушка любит, чтобы собака спала в постели с нами.
BILL: Хммм... Как бишь это называется на латыни?
TOM: Заткнись, я не это имел в виду!

Aha, so you blame the Romans, not the Greeks!

But either way, the idea is "The ancient pagans... [pause] ...were ancient, and were pagans."

(They lived a long time ago, and their religion was different from ours, so we should not expect them to think like us on matters of morality.)

Could one say Древние язычники -- древними язычниками with the same kind of meaning as "Boys will be boys"?