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In 1913, the line Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori was inscribed on the wall of the chapel of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. [7] In the final stanza of his poem, Owen refers to this as "The old Lie". [6] Some uncertainty arises around how to pronounce the Latin phrase when the poem is read aloud. There are essentially three choices: 1.
In 2010, McCulloch featured in a guest role on the song "Some Kind of Nothingness" by the Manic Street Preachers from their tenth album Postcards from a Young Man. [17] In 2012, McCulloch released his fourth and most recent studio album, Pro Patria Mori, as well as a live album Holy Ghosts in 2013. [18] [19]
The shorter phrase Pro Patria ("for the homeland") may or may be not related to the Horace quote: Pro Patria is the motto of the Higgins or O'Huigan clan. It is the motto of the Sri Lanka Army as well as being inscribed on the collar insignia of the Royal Canadian Regiment. Pro Patria is the name of a neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela.
The discography of the British singer Ian McCulloch consists of four studio albums, one compilation album, and nine singles.While he was still the lead singer of the band Echo & the Bunnymen, McCulloch released his debut solo single, a version of the standard "September Song", in 1984 which reached number fifty-one on the UK Singles Chart.
Ian McCulloch began his career in 1977, as one third of the Crucial Three, a bedroom band which also featured Julian Cope and Pete Wylie. [9] When Wylie left, McCulloch and Cope formed the short-lived A Shallow Madness with drummer Dave Pickett and organist Paul Simpson, during which time such songs as "Read It in Books", "Robert Mitchum", "You Think It's Love" and "Spacehopper" were written ...
dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland. Horace, Odes 3, 2, 13. Also used by Wilfred Owen for the title of a poem regarding World War I, Dulce et Decorum Est (calling it "the old Lie"). dulce et utile: a sweet and useful thing / pleasant and profitable
Track #3 on Side 1 is 'Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)'. A rough translation is "It is a sweet and glorious thing (to die for one's country)". Dulce et Decorum Est is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Track #3 on Side 2 is Thanatos, the Greek word for "death" and the name of the ancient Greek god of death.