"As the griffin throttles these [beasts], so Genoa crushes her foes."
— Genoa

January 1, 1970

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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