Expression made pessimistic and equivalent to " won't happen " indicates little hope speaker that happens something that is desired or that is considered suitable. In its origin seems that it expressed the fear that something happens and the desire which did not happen. " Ille non ficus caduturus " Ligurio Cayo told the Senate, when Hannibal was at the gates of Rome, recalling the omens of the priests of Apollo, saying that Rome would be assailed not while the fig tree of Minerva had some fruit. The fig tree almost leafless still had some fig and Hannibal did not attack. He ran the 216 b.c. in the vicinity of the autumn equinox.
