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Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine.

I leave you free from both men.

Tradition holds these were Saint Marinus's dying words in 366 AD, releasing the community on Monte Titano from allegiance to any single secular or ecclesiastical ruler — the origin of San Marino's motto 'Libertas.'

Saint Marinus, San Marino

Source: Attributed dying words of Saint Marinus, from the founding hagiography of San Marino (earliest surviving manuscripts, 10th century); discussed in William Miller, 'The Republic of San Marino,' The American Historical Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1901)

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