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Veridical

Broken down into its components, “veridical” applies to the advice to “just tell the truth.” It originates from the Latin word “veridicus,” from “verus” (“true”) and “dicere” (“say”). Basically, this adjective applies to anything that tells the truth.

Dido

There’s a story in Greek mythology in which Dido bargains with the Berber king Iarbas for a small piece of land — just enough that it can be encircled by an oxhide. He agrees, and Dido proceeds to cut an oxhide into small strips and produce enough material to make it around a nearby hill. According to myth, that settlement became Carthage, and Dido was the first queen. The history of Dido and Carthage is much more involved, but the idiom “to cut a dido,” meaning “to play a prank,” traces directly back to the queen and her oxhide.

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