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Obscuris vera involvens
Phrase meaning "Truth is enveloped by obscurity" from Virgil's Aeneid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The phrase (Latin: obscuris vera involvens "Wrapping truth in mystery") is from Virgil's Aeneid (VI, 100).[1]
"Talibus ex adyto dictis Cumaea Sibylla
horrendas canit ambages antroque remugit,
obscuris vera involvens: ea frena furenti
concutit, et stimulos sub pectore vertit Apollo."
— Virgil, Aeneid, Book VI lines 98-101
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It is also found on an engraving on the title page of Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients (1641 French edition).
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