ship of state

The nation, as in We can't help but wonder who will be steering our ship of state a hundred years from now . This metaphoric expression was first recorded in English in a translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince (1675).

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ilario	-	Italian
Lora	LAWR-a (English)	English, Italian
Bamforth	['bæmfəθ]
Pepca	-	Slovene
Anatu	-	Near Eastern Mythology
Sonia	SON-yə (English), SAWN-yə (English), SO-nyah (Italian)	English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian