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  2. 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]

  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. 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.

  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. Days in Europa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. List of last words (18th century) - Wikipedia

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    " Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. " [1]: 40 [27] [p] — Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (9 April 1747), quoting a line of Horace when executed by beheading as a Jacobite rebel "Thou dog!" [5]: 121 — Nader Shah, Shah of Iran (19 June 1747), to one of his assassins "Lord, now let thy servant depart in peace." [5]: 21

  9. Ian McCulloch discography - Wikipedia

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    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.