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

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

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

Древние язычники есть древние язычники (Язычники есть язычники is shorter and thus is better in my opinion ).
It's a standard way to express the idea "X is X. What else can you expect from X?"