![]() ![]() Image: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania), by N. For other previous common misquotations, take a look at our Misquotation of the Week feature. ![]() Explaining the number of African animals by hybridization (for example, lions breeding with leopards), Pliny explains that this is what gave rise to what he calls a common Greek saying that ‘Africa always brings forth something new.’ The allusion is to a passage in Aristotle’s History of Animals in which he notes that the most numerous forms of wild animals are to be found in Libya, and give the saying ‘Libya is always showing something new.’įrom the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ![]() The immediate source of the saying is a passage in the Natural History of the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the. Misquotation: ‘Always something new out of Africa’Ī proverbial expression, translating the Latin ex Africa semper aliquid novi, used in English from the mid 16 th century since 1937, the phrase has probably also evoked the thought of Karen Blixen’s memoir Out of Africa. Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance. ![]()
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