The joys of Greek; or, Pictures I should have taken

I have never studied Greek - one of the effects of getting my M.Div. from Trinity College, Toronto and not Wycliffe. However I do have a B.Sc in chemistry in my history and a passing interest in physics. Net result: I know my Greek letters. So I was able to decode most of the signs in Chios, given enough time (not that I needed to; most were in English too). And since English has borrowed a lot of words from Greek, I could figure out what a lot of them meant.

But one of them gave me a start. Here was this big transport truck bearing down on me, and on its front was painted something like Χιοσ Μεταφοροσ: Chios Metaphoros. I'd never thought of a truck being a metaphor before.