The glorious and the decent way of dying
Is for one’s country. Run, and death will seize
You no less surely. The young coward, flying,
Gets his quietus in the back and knees.
[Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidoque tergo.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 3, # 2, l. 13ff (3.2.13–16) (23 BC) [tr. Michie (1963)]
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Horace - Odes [Carmina], Book 3, # 2, l. 13ff (3.2.13–16) (23 BC) [tr. Michie (1963)] | WIST Quotations
The glorious and the decent way of dying Is for one's country. Run, and death will seize You no less surely. The young coward, flying, Gets his quietus in the back and knees.WIST Quotations