英语词汇e pluribus unum的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

E Pluribus Unum. The motto on the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States may come from an expression found on the title page of the British Gentlemen’s Magazine, widely circulated in America for several decades after 1731. The title page of the magazine’s first volume shows a hand hold- ing a bouquet over the epigraph E Pluribus Unum. The Latin words mean, in this case, “From many, one,” and are as fitting for a bouquet of flowers as they are for a nation composed of many former colonies. Other possibilities, however, include a line in Virgil’s poem “Moretum,” which deals with the making of a salad and reads color est e pluribus unus, probably the first use of the phrase in any form, and an essay by Richard Steele in The Spectator (August 20, 1711), which opens with the Latin phrase Exempta juvat spiris e pluribus unus (“Better one thorn plucked than all remain”). The Continental Congress ordered the President of Congress to have a seal in 1776 and E Pluribus Unum appeared on the first seal, as well as on many early coins. Congress adopted the motto in 1781 and it still appears on U.S. coins as well as on the Great Seal.

词汇	e pluribus unum
词源	E Pluribus Unum. The motto on the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States may come from an expression found on the title page of the British Gentlemen’s Magazine, widely circulated in America for several decades after 1731. The title page of the magazine’s first volume shows a hand hold- ing a bouquet over the epigraph E Pluribus Unum. The Latin words mean, in this case, “From many, one,” and are as fitting for a bouquet of flowers as they are for a nation composed of many former colonies. Other possibilities, however, include a line in Virgil’s poem “Moretum,” which deals with the making of a salad and reads color est e pluribus unus, probably the first use of the phrase in any form, and an essay by Richard Steele in The Spectator (August 20, 1711), which opens with the Latin phrase Exempta juvat spiris e pluribus unus (“Better one thorn plucked than all remain”). The Continental Congress ordered the President of Congress to have a seal in 1776 and E Pluribus Unum appeared on the first seal, as well as on many early coins. Congress adopted the motto in 1781 and it still appears on U.S. coins as well as on the Great Seal.
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