"Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori" ?
2007-02-28 06:30:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
And, uh, why just of the Americans? Can we please stop with Iraq stuff, is that's where this is headed?
And yes, it can be true.
2007-02-28 06:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by wenteast 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 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 to die for your country". In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country?
But they are not dying for their country, but for the oil to put in the car, so that their country can ignore the rest of the worlds cry about global warming
2007-02-28 14:41:23 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wilfred Owen might not be taught, but Horace might be, from who's Ode's this line was taken.
2007-02-28 14:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by jet-set 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt they teach Wilfred Owen in American schools......
2007-02-28 14:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by miss oxon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it is a lie in some cases, in others yes....and usually the ones who profess to being this are not......
2007-02-28 14:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ooooh a POLITE one!
Now Ive seen it all! *hovers nervously in case he gets on his soap box*
2007-02-28 17:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by Basket-santa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not think that it is a lie, I believe that dying for one's country is noble.
2007-02-28 14:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by Tony M 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Inter alias.....without a doubt !!
2007-02-28 15:24:38 · answer #8 · answered by Shredder 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i really should have payed more attention in latin class
2007-02-28 14:33:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes, I do
2007-02-28 14:35:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋