User:Relata refero

Relata refero ("I tell as I was told", or "I report reports") — Georg Büchmann, in Geflügelte Worte, 20th edn., p. 367, traces this phrase back to Herodotus, vii. 152: ἐγὼ δὲ ὀφείλω λέγειν τὰ λεγόμενα, πείθεσθαί γε μὲν οὐ παντάπασιν ὀφείλω καί μοι τοῦτο τὸ ἔπος ἐχέτω ἐς πάντα τὸν λόγον· ἐπεὶ καὶ ταῦτα λέγεται.

Relata is the plural past participle neutered and refero the first person singular, present indicative active of the verb conjugated refero, referre, retuli, relatum, the root of such words as 'relating', and 'reference'; the phrase is thus a polyptoton.

It was the motto of the pseudo-official