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A light galley, so called from the Liburnians, a people of Illyricum, who built and navigated them. The signum, here likened to a galley, was more probably a rude crescent, connected with the worship of the moon, cf. Caes. B.G. 6, 21: Germani deorum numero ducunt Solem et Lunam. Ex magnitudine. Ex==secundum, cf. ex nobilitate, ex virtute Sec. 7.
Montcalm that day, full of pride, caused a great cross to be erected on his victorious field of battle and upon it he wrote in Latin: "Quid dux? quid miles? quid strata ingentia ligna? En Signum! en victor! Deus hic, Deus ipse triumphat." Which a great American writer has translated into: "Soldier and chief and ramparts' strength are nought; Behold the conquering cross!
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