Bearing Gifts. \" Bearing gifts you know, giving gifts, having gifts. All right. So

let's continue. This is a quote from Aeneid in Latin. And this is the actual

Latin quote \"Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferantes. \" which nowadays basically is rephrased to

Beware Greeks bearing gifts. Yeah. The Danaos that was actually the

old name for Greeks et is always and Dona is giving So I guess the ferantes

must be gifts. All right. Anyway let's continue. The origin of this proverb comes directly

from Greek mythology. Okay. It directly relates to the story of the Greeks

tricking the Trojans by building a large horse in order to find a way into the

city of Troy. Because they had a lot of it blocked off. This was

actually a long war they were fighting this war already for about nine years.

And they had to they had to figure out a way to really get in there to really

defeat you know the Trojans basically. So it directly relates to the story of the

Greeks tricking the Trojans by building a large horse, you know , in order to find a

way into the city. The idea was for the Greeks through sail away and pretend

they were giving up in defeat leaving behind an offering. You know a gift and

offering for a safe journey home. So don't follow us and try to you know,

continue to fight us. We're leaving now. We're giving up. We're tired after

nine years. We're going home. Of course this was nothing but a ruse. A ruse you

know, trick. The Greeks had their best soldiers hiding in the horse as the

offering was thought to be a gift it was brought into the city. When night came

the Warriors snuck out of the horse and could do a surprise sneak attack

when most Trojan warriors were sleeping. So they were actually to you know able

to attack them and kind of kill a lot even you know as they were waking up. So

they were able to really make you know it's a good attack on them to, to beat

the Trojans. Okay good. And of course so we just give you an

example of how we might use this today. So somebody might say. Isn't , isn't he

your enemy. It doesn't make any sense that he would offer this to you. That he would

give this to you. My advice to you ... my advice is beware Greeks bearing gifts.

So the same sort of idea. That must be a trick. This is too good to be true.

Something seems wrong. Enemies don't usually do this. So be very very careful.

Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.

Bye-bye.