Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany took festina lente as his motto and illustrated it with a sail-backed tortoise.
Other such visualizations include a hare in a snail shell a chameleon with a fish a diamond ring entwined with foliage and perhaps most recognizably, a dolphin entwined around an anchor. (He thought nothing less becoming in a well-trained leader than haste and rashness, and, accordingly, favourite sayings of his were: "Hasten slowly" "Better a safe commander than a bold" and "That which has been done well has been done quickly enough.")Ĭertain gold coins minted for Augustus bore images of a crab and a butterfly to attempt an emblem for the adage. Nihil autem minus perfecto duci quam festinationem temeritatemque convenire arbitrabatur. The Roman historian Suetonius, in De vita Caesarum, tells that Augustus deplored rashness in a military commander, thus " σπεῦδε βραδέως" was one of his favourite sayings: The adage, in Greek and Latin, with the anchor and the dolphin, among the seven emblems of the University of Salamanca.
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