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Thursday, March 23, 2006


The side of the War Memorial facing the New Central (Administrative) Block.
Does the Latin stand for 'An Honorable and Patriotic Death'?

posted by Sunil Pichamuthu | 7:07 AM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm an Old Boy, enjoying your pages and photographs.

The inscription "Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" translates
literally to "sweet [dulce] and fitting [decorum] it is to die [mori]
for one's country [patria]". The line is from one of Horace's Odes,
and it was long used to exhort patriots to war.

The awful trenches of WWI, however, put paid to most notions of
sacrifice and courage. Briton Wilfred Owen, who was to die in that
war, wrote a famous poem by the name "Dulce et Decorum Est" in which
he recorded the reality of these experiences. His poem ends by
calling this phrase "the old lie"; ever since, the power of his poem
has vested the Latin phrase with a cynical meaning. Its modern use is
therefore as likely as not to be sarcastic, with an implicit reference
to a paternalistic and misguided state toying with lives.

8:36 PM  

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