Cicero- Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus (Not for Ourselves Alone are We Born) Carving Material:Classic Oak this William Morris inspired carving

this William Morris inspired carving is one of our most complex and personally gratifying designs

Morris is considered to be the father of the Arts & Crafts movement in England

The Craftsman

We coupled it with a botanically-correct representation of a thorny branch from the actual plant Biblical scholars have identified as the one his Roman captors used to make the thorny crown (ziziphus spina-christi)

prominent artist and children’s book illustrator

Cicero- Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus (Not for Ourselves Alone are We Born) Carving Material:Classic Oak this William Morris inspired carvingCicero Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus Translated from English, Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus means "not for ourselves alone are we born." It is from Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Officiis of 44 B. C. The full line is: Non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici which translates to "Not for us alone are we born; our country, our friends, have a share in us." This great thought speaks to everyone in service to something greater