Daily quote by Genoa

• Grifus ut has angit
  Sic hostes Janua frangit.
• As the griffin throttles these [beasts], so Genoa crushes her foes.
  • Mediæval motto of Genoa. Quoted in Edgcumbe Staley, Heroines of Genoa (1911), p. xxvii. Translation from Dale Kinney, "Review of "Sic hostes Ianua frangit": Spolien und Trophäen im mittelalterlichen Genua, by Rebecca Müller", Speculum, 80 (2005), p. 1,336