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ARMS (SHIELD)
Argent, three DIANAS’ Heads of the Field, crined and Horned Or(Gold)
CREST
A dexter HAND in bend couped at the wrist, in the act of conveying to another dexter Hand, issuant from the Wreath Argent, a TORCH erect Gules, fired Or(Gold)
MOTTO
LAMPADA TRADEM
“I WILL PASS ON THE TORCH”
The Crest and Motto allude to certain Greek races where the runners passed a torch from hand to hand; thence Lucretius says of the generations of mankind : “…et, quasi cursores, vitai lampada tradunt” (And, like runners, they pass on the torch of life)
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