LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“Pax romana”
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“Veni, vidi, vici”
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“Dux bellorum”
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“Pro patria mori”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pro patria mori. Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
Detailed explanation-2: -’Dulce et Decorum Est’ or, to give the phrase in full: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Latin for ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’ (patria is where we get our word ‘patriotic’ from).
Detailed explanation-3: -Pro patria mori. “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. The Latin title is taken from Ode 3.2 (Valor) of the Roman poet Horace and means “it is sweet and fitting". It is followed by pro patria mori, which means “to die for one’s country".
Detailed explanation-4: -Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – or the “old Lie”, as Owen describes it – is a quotation from the Odes of the Roman poet Horace, in which it is claimed that “it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country”.
Detailed explanation-5: -The full phrase that Owen has used to end his poem is ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro patria mori’ which can be loosely be translated to ‘it is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.