here be dragons

Etymology
Evidence of the use of this term as a notation on actual historical maps is lacking. The only known appearance of an equivalent phrase in any language on a historical map is of, placed on the east coast of Asia, on the Hunt-Lenox Globe, which dates from c. 1510. The phrase is simply a variation on HIC SVNT LEONES ("here are lions"), the classical phrase used by medieval cartographers to denote unknown territories on maps.

Phrase

 * 1) By extension, used to indicate that which is unknown or uncertain, particularly if it seems to carry some type of risk.
 * 2) * 1987, Ritchie Calder, reported in New Scientist, Vol. 114, No. 1559, May 7, 1987, p. 61:
 * . . . let me go into what was the unknown, ‘Here-be-Dragons’, hinterland of science, to find out what made scientists tick. ..
 * 1) * 1993, Incorporated Association of Organists, Organists' Review, Volume 79, Issues 309-312, p. 219:
 * Speaking of money... here be dragons... Do you charge?
 * 1) * 1987, Ritchie Calder, reported in New Scientist, Vol. 114, No. 1559, May 7, 1987, p. 61:
 * . . . let me go into what was the unknown, ‘Here-be-Dragons’, hinterland of science, to find out what made scientists tick. ..
 * 1) * 1993, Incorporated Association of Organists, Organists' Review, Volume 79, Issues 309-312, p. 219:
 * Speaking of money... here be dragons... Do you charge?
 * Speaking of money... here be dragons... Do you charge?

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 此處有龍
 * Latin: hic sunt dracones