Hic monstra sunt
sounds better to me than
Hic sunt monstra that has less music. If you read it it comes out clipped., while if you read Hic m
onstra sunt, it flows around the bold o.
Originally it was hic sunt leones, meaning here there are lions (beware), not let lions be here.
My father in law when he had to move to the state capital, where bureaucrats and no-goods abound, used to say hic sunt cagones. People that spread it.