dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

[ dool-ke et de-koh-room est proh pah-tree-ah moh-ree; English duhl-see et di-kawr-uhm est proh pey-tree-uh mawr-ahy, mohr-ahy, -kohr-uhm ]

Latin.

1. sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country.

Example Sentences

Lee is a fantasy, offering us a mint julep on the verandah of the imaginary past and assuring us, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

From Salon

While Wilfred Owen denounced Horace’s patriotic maxim, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,” as “the old lie,” Kipling continued to read Horace, whom he had studied at school, throughout the war.

From The New Yorker

One of his poems took as its title the first part of a line from Horace: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori.”

From The New Yorker

His thesis is the juxtaposition of the great powers marching off in August 1914, with their banners and tootling – “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – and the reality of war.

From Salon

Now a peace organisation has put up a sign saying: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori".

From The Guardian