E pluribus unum, Latin for "Out of quite a few, one", is often a motto requested by Pierre Eugene du Simitiere (originally Pierre-Eugène Ducimetière) and found in 1776 within the Seal with the United States, together with Annuit cœptis and Novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782.[1] The phrase is similar to a Latin translation of the variation of Heraclitus' 10th fragment, "Out of all points a person, 1 out of all items." A variant with the phrase was employed in Moretum, a poem attributed to Virgil but while using the actual author unknown. In the poem text, color est e pluribus unus describes the blending of colors into a person. St Augustine utilized a variant on the phrase, ex pluribus unum, in his Confessions. At the time from the American Revolution, the exact phrase appeared prominently for the title page of the well-liked periodical, The Gentleman's Magazine,[2][3][4] which collected content articles from quite a few sources into one "magazine".