Nec temere, nec timide

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Nec temere, nec timide is a Latin phrase thatcan be translatedas "Neither careless nor fearful" . Their exact origin is unknown.

The phrase was used as a motto by various people or noble families:

Nowadays it is used as a motto of different institutions and cities, e.g. B .:

Danzig

Danzig coat of arms and motto
10 Danzig guilders 1935

Gdansk has had the motto “Nec temere, nec timide” since the Middle Ages . He is also shown on the Danzig coat of arms. The coins of the Danzig Gulden of the Free City of Danzig also show the motto on the lapel .

Web links

Commons : Nec temere nec timide  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Charles Sandoe Gilbert: An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall: To All which is added, A Complete Heraldry of the Same; with Numerous Engravings, Volume 2, Part 1, 1820, p. 443, digitized
  2. ^ William Berry: Encyclopædia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, 1828, entry Earl of Craven, digitized
  3. ^ William Berry: Encyclopædia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, 1828, p. 234