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  2. Dulce et Decorum est - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - Wikipedia

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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."

  4. Ian McCulloch (singer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of Latin phrases (D) - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Satires 2.5 (Horace) - Wikipedia

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    Tiresias appears to Odysseus during the nekyia of Odyssey xi, in this watercolor with tempera by the Anglo-Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1780-85. Published around 30 BCE, the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace.

  7. 1920 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

  8. Odes (Horace) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Dulcie and Decorum - Wikipedia

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    "Dulcie and Decorum" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the March 1955 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction . In 1969 it was reprinted by Gollancz in the collection Off Centre .