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“Non plus ultra”
For centuries charts indicated ‘non plus ultra’ (nothing further beyond) as a warning to mariners to go no further past the Rock of Gibraltar. Plato referred to it as the edge of the unknown. This was where Hercules, intended to cross a mountain, instead smashed it in two …