—“Our family has always had a great humanistic tradition.”
—“Who wrote the motto?”
—“A cousin who had taken two years of Latin by correspondence.”
Later studies of the family lineage paid particular attention to its physiognomic tradition. Some researchers considered the nose to be an element of special anthropological interest, although it was never determined whether it was part of the family heritage or had simply decided to stay there.
Professor Albrecht von Hohenstaufen (1903) suggested that the motto referred to an ancient Catalan military brotherhood. The theory was dismissed after it was discovered that the professor had been reading the parchment upside down.
Several philologists have attempted to determine the origin of the family motto. To this day, no satisfactory conclusion has been reached.
