He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. Pro patria mori. Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” Copyright Credit: Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" from Poems, ed. Siegfried Sassoon. New …

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."

"Dulce et Decorum Est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. 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 …

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is Latin for ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’ (patria is where we get our word ‘patriotic’ from: it literally means ‘fatherland’, and is thus linked to the Latin noun pater, meaning ‘father’).

The Ode contains one of Horace’s most-remembered quotes: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – it is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country. The First-World-War poet Wilfred Owen borrowed it for a poem conveying quite a different view on dying for one’s country.

2013年1月31日 · “It is sweet and good (or right) to die for your fatherland,” wrote the poet Horace (Odes III.2.13), and echoes of this idea are seen in requiems and memorials throughout history.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country.

2024年6月30日 · Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which is a line taken from the Latin odes of the Roman poet Horace, translates as "it is sweet and proper to die for one's country." Wilfred Owen takes the opposite stance.

2018年3月4日 · Focusing in particular on one moment in the First World War, when Owen and his platoon are attacked with poison gas, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is a studied analysis of suffering and perhaps the most famous anti-war poem ever written.