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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."
Its Latin title is from a verse written by the Roman poet Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. [3] In English, this means "it is sweet and right to die for one's country". [4] The poem is one of Owen's most renowned works; it is known for its horrific imagery and its condemnation of war.
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 ...
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. ... In English: If you had remained silent, you would have remained a philosopher. A mari ...
non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria: Not with gold, but with iron must the fatherland be reclaimed: According to some Roman this sentence was said by Marcus Furius Camillus to Brennus, the chief of the Gauls, after he demanded more gold from the citizens of the recently sacked Rome in 390 BC. non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro
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. " [1]: ... English Anglican clergyman and man of letters (27 June 1777), to his executioner prior to hanging for forgery. He ...