=Greeks= (_Last of the_) Philopœ´men of Megalop´olis, whose great object was to infuse into the Achæans a military spirit, and establish their independence (B.C. 252-183). _Greeks joined Greeks._ Clytus said to Alexander that Philip was the greater warrior: I have seen him march, And fought beneath his dreadful banner, where The boldest at this table would have trembled. Nay, frown not, sir, you cannot look me dead; When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. N. Lee, _Alexander the Great, iv. 2_ (1678). ⁂ Slightly altered into _When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war_. This line of Nathaniel Lee has become a household phrase. _To play the Greek_, to act like a harlot. When Cressid says of Helen, “Then she’s a merry Greek indeed,” she means that Helen is no better than a _fille publique_. Probably Shakespeare had his eye upon “fair Hiren,” in Peel’s play called _The Turkish Mahomet and Hyren the Fair Greek._ “A fair Greek” was at one time a euphemism for a courtezan. =Green= (_Mr. Paddington_), clerk at Somerset House. _Mrs. Paddington Green_, his wife.—T.M. Morton, _If I had a Thousand a Year_. _Green_ (_Verdant_), a young man of infinite simplicity, who goes to college, and is played upon by all the practical jokers of _alma mater_. After he has bought his knowledge by experience, the butt becomes the “butter” of juveniles greener than himself. Verdant Green wore spectacles, which won for him the nickname of “Gig-lamps.”—Cuthbert Bede [Rev. Edw. Bradley], _Verdant Green_ (1860). _Green_ (_Widow_), a rich, buxom dame of 40, who married first for money, and intended to choose her second husband “to please her vanity.” She fancied Waller loved her, and meant to make her his wife, but Sir William Fondlove was her adorer. When the politic widow discovered that Waller had fixed his love on another, she gave her hand to the old beau, Sir William; for if the news got wind of her love for Waller, she would become the laughing-stock of all her friends.—S. Knowles, _The Love-Chase_ (1837). _Green Bird_ (_The_), a bird that told one everything it was asked. An oracular bird, obtained by Fairstar after the failure of Cherry and her two brothers. It was this bird who revealed to the king that Fairstar was his daughter and Cherry his nephew. Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“Fairstar and Prince Cherry,” 1682). =Green Horse= (_The_), the 5th Dragoon Guards (_not_ the 5th Dragoons). So called from their green velvet facings. =Green Howard=, (_The_), the 19th Foot. So called from the Hon. Charles Howard, their colonel from 1738 to 1748. =Green Knight= (_The_), Sir Pertolope (3 _syl_.), called by Tennyson “Evening Star” or “Hesperus.” He was one of the four brothers who kept the passages of Castle Perilous, and was overthrown by Sir Gareth.—Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 127 (1470); Tennyson, _Idylls_ (“Gareth and Lynette”).