Nullius in Verba — Horace Quote Phone Case

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"Nullius in Verba."
Take nobody's word for it.
— Horace
Epistles I.1, around 20 BC. Motto of the Royal Society since 1662. We check every line.

On the back, the Latin stacked over the English — the Latin you might half-remember from school, and the translation so it doesn't matter if you don't. Under a gold rule, two sources centuries apart: a Roman poet, and the scientists who took his line for their motto in 1662.

Set it face down at dinner. The line's the part that shows.

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