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Photographer: Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Caption: Great Seal of the State of New Mexico
Additional Description: From the Wikipedia Entry: “Crescit eundo. Translated from Latin, it means "It grows as it goes" and has been criticized for appearing strange or even nonsensical at first hearing. However, the intended effect is more clear if one considers it within the context of the epic poem De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) by first-century B.C. Latin poet Lucretius. Here, it refers to a thunderbolt increasing in strength as it moves across the sky, referenced by the selectors of the motto as a symbol of dynamic progress.”
Submitted: August 15, 2014, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p282739
File Size: 0.163 Megabytes

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