History
Nihil novi effectively established "nobles' democracy" in what came to be known as the Polish "Commonwealth of the Nobility." That First Polish Republic would come to an end in 1795 with the Third and final Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
"Nihil novi," in this political sense, is interpreted in the vernacular as "Nothing about us without us" (in Polish, "Nic o nas bez nas").
The Latin expression, "nihil novi" ("nothing new"), had previously appeared in the Vulgate Bible phrase, "nihil novi sub sole" ("there is nothing new under the sun"), in Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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