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Jove almighty,
nod assent to the daring work I have in hand!

— Virgil Aeneid (-19)

Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus adnue coeptis.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Compare: Annuit cœptis ("[God] has favored our undertaking"), motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.

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