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Virgil and the Constitution

Virgil and the Constitution

When the Founders created the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, they borrowed all three of its sayings from poems attributable to the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BCE):ย E pluribus unumย (โ€œout of many, oneโ€),ย Novus ordo seclorumย (โ€œa new order of the agesโ€) andย Annuit...