This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera.
Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome.
[1] The motto was sometimes associated with the symbol of the pomegranate[11] whose tasty arils are hidden inside a tough epicarp topped by a persistent calyx[12] shaped like a crown or, when viewed from above[13], like the six-pointed Star of David, the pomegranate being, in Judeo-Christian and Masonic iconography and ornamentation, a traditional symbol of biblical royalty.