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04-21-2007, 06:51 PM
Quote:note the significance of the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
I don't believe the description is quite accurate. The figure on the ground doesn't look like "tyranny" to me, it looks like a king. And "sic semper tyrannis" means " thus always to kings" ("Tyrannus" was the first king of Rome and "tyrannus" means "absolute ruler" in Latin). All of which would tie in with it being designed the year after Independence.

It is very tempting to put a modern interpretation on old mottos. That of the US army special forces, "de oppresso liber", means "free from oppression" but is universally mistranslated (including in Wikipedia) as "to free from oppression".
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