Latin to English translation?

Question

Annuit coeptis
Novus ordo seclorum

Translation please?

Answer 1

Annuit Cœptis is one of two mottos (the other being Novus Ordo Seclorum) on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. Taken from the Latin words annuo (to nod, approve) and cœpto (to begin, undertake), it literally means someone or something "has approved our beginnings". The unspecified subject is apparently the Eye of Providence, which the motto surrounds, and accordingly, the U.S. State Department gives the translation "He [God] has favored our undertakings" (brackets in original).[1]

The motto is most commonly seen on the reverse side of the U.S. one dollar bill, which contains both sides of the Great Seal.

"Annuit Coeptis" and the other motto on the Great Seal, "Novus Ordo Seclorum", can both be traced to lines by the Roman poet Virgil. "Annuit Coeptis" comes from the Aeneid, book IX, line 625, which reads, "Jupiter omnipotens, audacibus annue coeptis." It is a prayer by the hero of the story, Aeneas, which translates to, "Jupiter omnipotent, favour [my] daring undertakings." Jupiter is the most powerful god in Roman mythology.

The phrase Novus Ordo Seclorum (Latin for "New Order of the Ages") appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, first designed in 1782 and printed on the back of the American dollar bill since 1935. It also appears on the coat of arms of the Yale School of Management, Yale University's business school. It is often mistranslated as "New World Order", but the Latin for that phrase would be Novus Ordo Mundi.

Answer 2

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