[[Image:PlusOultre Gent Copyright200406KaihsuTai.JPG|thumb|right|Plus Oultre on a gable of a Flemish house in Ghent, Charles V's birthplace]]
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Oreads''' (ὄρος, "mountain") were a type of [[nymph]] that lived in mountains. They were associated with [[Aphrodite]].
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The motto of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] was '''''Plus Ultra''''' ("More Beyond"), an expression of the dynamism of the new imperial [[Cosmopolitan]]ism. Earl Rosenthal has uncovered in detailed work the origin of the motto. It comes from Charles' personal physician and counselor, the [[Milan]] humanist [[Luigi Marliano]]. He advised the young duke and later emperor, 1515 with his adulthood to Grand Master of the medal by the [[Golden Fleece]] had been appointed, to put his office under the French motto ''Plus Oultre''. This Program meant challenging disregard of the warning for navigators that, according to the myth, [[Hercules]] had installed on [[Pillars of Hercules|both pillars]] in the [[Strait of Gibraltar]], here the Border of the habitable world would be reached.
[[Image:PlusOultreBinche.jpg|thumb|left|PLVS OVLTRE (Plus oultre = further), motto of Charles V and the city of [[Binche]] (Belgium) where lived Charles V's sister, Marie de Hongrie. This is an element of the fireworks for the carnival 2005. This "Plus Oultre" will burn, signifying the end of the ending "[[rondeau]]".]]
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As Charles became the [[king of Spain]] this foreign motto and its implicit confession to the French culture was opposed in Spain and was transformed into an unshocking ''Plus Ultra'' (the learned grammarian [[Girolamo Ruscelli]] called it bad [[Latin]], with the correct form being ''ulterius''). Rosenthal's searches prove that the challenging ''Plus Ultra'' of Charles V cannot be a bold retort to a previous "nec plus ultra", but simply the translation of Charles' motto "Plus Oultre." With his motto Charles takes from Italy the new time mood expressed also in [[Ariosto]]'s contemporary Italian poem "[[Orlando furioso]]" mentions the world discovered beyond the Pillars repeatedly).
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"Plus Ultra" is still used as a national motto of Spain.