- et si ab
initio tales fuerunt, non sibi per connubium, sed per
stuprum potius convenerunt."
Augustine of Hippo, City of God, 14.13
Clark 1996.
Clark 1986...
-
Middle Ages Coat of arms Motto: Kentoc'h
mervel eget bezañ saotret (Breton)
Potius mori quam fœdari (Latin) Plutôt la mort que la souillure (French) À ma vie (French)...
- non (ut in
alijs planetis fit) cir****ferentiam
deferentis circularem, sed
potius figuras,
habentis similitudinem ****
plana ovali,
peripheriam describere...
- as
follows (emphasis added): Quod si in ipsa radice, hoc est sede, vel
potius solio Romani pontificis haec
abominationis lues
purgaretur et ex communi...
-
marriage purposes with the
royal or
reigning families.
Their motto is:
Potius mori quam foedari. The
family had a
hereditary seat in the
Upper House (Erste...
- of
Charles VIII and the
porcupine of
Louis XII. She also used the
motto Potius Mori Quam
Foedari ("Rather die than dishonor") (in
Breton "Kentoc'h mervel...
- power":
statuuntque latiores terminos scientiae Dei quam potestatis, vel
potius ejus
partis potestatis Dei (nam et ipsa
scientia potestas est) qua scit...
-
former Dukes of
Brittany is Kentoc'h
mervel eget bezañ
saotret in Breton, or
Potius mori quam fœdari in
Latin which translates to "death
before dishonour"....
-
cross a
dirty marsh. This
episode would have
inspired the duchess' motto : "
Potius mori quam foedari" ("rather
death than dishonour"). The
motto has later...
- (active
during three periods between 1916 and 1963) used the variant, Esse
potius quam
videri with the same meaning. The U. S.
Consortium of Metropolitan...
