Conundrum

Speaking of my being blond now, I seem to have lost a few IQ points, because I'm being bothered by a stupid conundrum.

You know the phrase nihil sub sole novum, "there's nothing new under the sun"? It's attributed to Horace, and also to the author of Ecclesiastes, Solomon or whoever. But was Solomon really the first person to say that? Whoever it was, they must have had a logical bind, because of course at the time it was itself a new thought and a new turn of phrase. Which would make the utterance untrue.

Unless of course whoever first said it said it super sole, but of course then we have the problem of what "over the sun" could mean. Because there's no up in space, so how would you know if you were above the sun or below it? I guess if we're thinking in terms of Ptolemaic cosmology, the speaker would just have to be in a sphere farther from the earth than the sun, like say the sphere of Saturn. "Hey guys, my fellow Saturnians, have you noticed that there's nothing new under the sun? We should totally tell King Solomon about this."

You'd think if extraterrestrials talked to the ancient Israelites, there'd be some record of it, though.

Any thoughts?