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The inscription reads: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [a] is a line from the Odes (III.2.13) by the Roman lyric poet Horace. The line translates: "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country."
The inscription reads: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", written by the Roman poet Horace. The style of "Dulce et Decorum Est" is similar to the French ballade poetic form. [8] By referencing this formal poetic form and then breaking the conventions of pattern and rhyming, Owen accentuates the disruptive and chaotic events being told.
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
Ode III.2 contains the famous line Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori ("It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country"). Ode III.5 Caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem makes explicit identification of Augustus as a new Jove destined to restore in modern Rome the valor of past Roman heroes like Marcus Atilius Regulus , whose story occupies the ...
pro Deo et Patria: For God and Country: Frequently used motto pro domo (sua) for (one’s own) home or house: serving the interests of a given perspective or for the benefit of a given group. pro Ecclesia, pro Texana: For Church, For Texas: Motto of Baylor University, a private Christian Baptist university in Waco, Texas. pro fide et patria
The same motto, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, had been adapted to the ethos of martyrdom in the lyrics of early Christian poets like Prudentius. [92] These preliminary comments touch on a small sample of developments in the reception of Horace's work. More developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections.
Nietzscheian alternative worldview to that represented through memento mori ("remember you must die"): Nietzsche believed amor fati was more affirmative of life. amor omnibus idem: love is the same for all: From Virgil, Georgics III amor patriae: love of the fatherland: i.e., "love of the nation;" patriotism: amor vincit omnia: love conquers all
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.) ... Actually, I believe the translation is wrong on other levels: ...