We and Us

 Here is one of those word that are so basic we never really think about it until we are learning a foreign language. “Nos” is one of those words that tells the reader or hearer who is included in the intentions of the speaker or writer. It’s “we” a group of people in which I am included. 

“Nos” is a plural of “Ego” which is Latin for I or myself. 

Their is a tale contained In Homer’s Odyssey about Odysseus where he is trapped in the Cyclop’s cave and he tells the Cyclops that his name is Nemo which means no one. When Odysseus attacks the cyclops to escape the cave. The Cyclops scream out to his friend for help saying “No one is attacking me.” 

Hence the phrase from “Nemo Nostrum” means “We are no one.”