Re: Help with Latin

Baba wrote:

> Howdy folks,
>
> please forgive this but I know we have a number of cunning linguists
> on the list whose latin knowledge surpasses mine (not hard).  Having
> difficulty translating the following phrase, can anyone help?
>
> Eos non pedicamus
Okay, Ray can probably help you better at this (for, IIRC, he
was a Latin teacher for some years), but here's my go at it:

We do not snare them
(or alternately: "We are not snaring them")

My handy li'l Latin dictionary doesn't actually have an entry for
_pedicare_, but it does have one for _pedica_, "snare, trap".
But it would be nice to have a little context, if that is possible.
It sounds vaguely like a heraldic motto, in its point and tersity.
Is it?

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