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Don McLean's "American Pie" begins with the phrase "A long, long time ago...". All of the Star Wars films, as well as several of the expanded universe novels, begin with the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....". The musical Into the Woods begins with the Narrator's line, "Once upon a time." The second act commences with his ...
from or since Deucalion: A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci: to set forth from false principles: Legal phrase. From Cicero, De Finibus IV.53. a fortiori: from the stronger: i.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident ...
According to Christian universalism, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word aión (αἰών) to mean a long period and the word aiṓnion (αἰώνιον) to mean "during a long period"; [7] thus, there was a time before the aeons, and the aeonian period is finite. After each person's mortal life ends, they are judged worthy of ...
In 1799, it was set to a traditional pentatonic tune, which has since become standard. "Auld Lang Syne" is listed as numbers 6294 and 13892 in the Roud Folk Song Index . The poem's Scots title may be translated into English as "old long since" or, less literally, "long long ago", [ 6 ] "days gone by", "times long past" or "old times".
Time immemorial (Latin: Ab immemorabili) is a phrase meaning time extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition, indefinitely ancient, "ancient beyond memory or record". [1] The phrase is used in legally significant contexts as well as in common parlance.
In the Pali language of early Buddhism, the word kalpa takes the form kappa, and is mentioned in the assumed oldest scripture of Buddhism, the Sutta Nipata. This speaks of "Kappâtita: one who has gone beyond time, an Arahant". [9] [10] This part of the Buddhist manuscripts dates back to the middle part of the last millennium BCE. [citation needed]
A millennium (pl. millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years or one hundred decades or ten centuries, [1] [2] sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
Pluperfect continuous meaning. When the imperfect tense is used with a length of time it means 'had done' or 'had been doing', referring to a situation which had been going on for some time and was still going on. [78] The adverb iam 'by now' is sometimes added: quod iam diū cupiēbant (Livy) [79] 'which they had been desiring for a long time now'