E pluribus unum, Latin for "Out of many, one", is really a motto requested by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere (originally Pierre-Eugène Ducimetière) and discovered in 1776 on the Seal in the United States, along with Annuit cœptis and Novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782.[1] The phrase is similar to some Latin translation of a variation of Heraclitus' 10th fragment, "Out of all things a single, one particular out of all factors." A variant on the phrase was utilized in Moretum, a poem attributed to Virgil but with the actual author unknown. Inside the poem text, color est e pluribus unus describes the blending of colors into a -[07/16-18:52]-
agrinny: be happy ducks