Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Esse quam videri is a Latin phrase meaning "To be, rather than to seem". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It has been used as motto by a number of different groups. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group

Contents

History

Esse quam videri is found in Cicero's essay "On Friendship" ("De amicitia", chapter 98). Marcus Tullius Cicero ( Classical Latin ˈkikeroː usually ˈsɪsərəʊ in English January 3, 106 BC &ndash December 7, 43 BC was a Roman "Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt" (Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so).

Just a few years after Cicero, Sallust used the phrase in his Bellum Catilinae (54. For the philosopher see Sallustius; for other uses see Sallust (disambiguation. 6), writing that Cato the Younger "esse quam videri bonus malebat" (He preferred to be good rather than to seem so). Marcus Porcius Catō Uticensis (95 BC&ndash46 BC known as Cato the Younger ( Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather ( Cato the Elder

Previous to both Romans, Aeschylus used a similar phrase in Seven Against Thebes at line 592, at which the scout (angelos) says of the seer/priest Amphiaraos: "ou gar dokein aristos, all' enai thelei" (his resolve is not to seem the best but in fact to be the best). Aeschylus (ˈɛskɨləs or /ˈiːskɨləs/ Greek: Ασχύλος, Aischylos, 525 BC/524 BC 456 BC/455 BC was an ancient Greek Playwright The Seven against Thebes (Επτά επί Θήβας Epta epi Thēbas) is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus (467 BCE In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus (or Amphiaraos, "doubly-cursed" or "twice Ares -like" was the son of Oecles and Plato quoted this line in Republic (361b). Biography Early life Birth and family Plato was born in Athens Greece The Republic ( Greek: / Politeía, meaning "political system" Latin: Res Publica, meaning "public business" or

In "The Prince", Niccolò Machiavelli twists this phrase to Videri Quam Esse (To seem, rather than to be) with respect to how a ruler ought to act. Il Principe ( The Prince) is a political Treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist

Usage as a motto

North Carolina

Great Seal of North Carolina with the state motto esse quam videri.
Great Seal of North Carolina with the state motto esse quam videri.

Esse quam videri is the state motto of North Carolina, adopted in 1893. Here is a list of state Mottos for the states of the United States of America. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

It is unusual that until the act of 1893 the sovereign state of North Carolina had no motto since its declaration of independence. It was one of the few states which did not have a motto and the only one of the original thirteen without one.

The state motto has also been adopted by the Virginia class submarine USS North Carolina (SSN-777). Innovations The Virginia s incorporate several innovations Instead of Periscopes the subs have a pair of extendable " Photonics masts quot outside History The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Newport News (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Newport News Virginia

Schools

Esse quam videri is (or was) the motto of several schools around the world including;

Sororities

"Esse Quam Videri" is also the motto of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority [11], founded in 1917 at New York University Law School. Delta Phi Epsilon ( ΔΦΕ or DPhiE) is an international sorority founded on March 17 1917 at New York University Law School in New York City Fraternities and sororities (from the Latin words la frater and la soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively are fraternal See also New York Law School The New York University School of Law ( NYU Law) is the

"Esse Quam Videri" is also the motto of the Lambda Kappa Sigma sorority [12], founded in 1913 at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. ΛKΣ (Lambda Kappa Sigma headquartered in Muskego Wisconsin is an international pharmacy fraternity founded in 1913 by Ethel J Fraternities and sororities (from the Latin words la frater and la soror, meaning "brother" and "sister" respectively are fraternal

Fraternities

Phi Lambda Sigma, Lebanon Valley College, est. 1867

Families

Esse quam videri is the motto used on the coats of arms of the following families: Bowen, Breamore, Brownlee, Brownlow, Cambria, Clavering, Croft, Dickinson, Harmer, Hannum, Hood, Isserman, Longley, Manning, Renshaw, Sibley, Sturges, and Thurston. A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short in European tradition is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people Breamore is a village in Hampshire, England, located near to Fordingbridge. Cambria is the classical name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name Cymru (Wales Longley is a small district in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England between Newsome and Lowerhouses. Manning is a Family name. Origin and Meaning This is the name of a Galway family who were formerly chiefs of Sodhan a district nearly co-extensive with

It was also the motto used within the Brockman coat of arms circa 1700. The Brockman surname is not common but has spread to several countries around the world

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic