Wilfred Owen had called it “the old lie”, as together with other doomed youth he stepped onto the front line in France, during World War I. The meaning of such an anti-war poem became even ...

Sean Quigley '10: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. By Brown Daily Herald. March 12, 2007 | 8:00pm EDT "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country." Written by the Roman poet Horace in the ...

If you love good films, like to read history and enjoy literature, you must be familiar with three big names: Rudyard Kipling, Michael Collins, and T E Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia.

Dulce et decorum est. Published 10 August 2005. From Thom Osborne ... Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – it is sweet and right to die for one’s country. ...

Editor's Note: In observance of Veterans Day, PennLive will annually reprint "Dulce et Decorum Est," by the English poet Wilfred Owen. It's still the single, strongest reminder of the folly of war ...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. This is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace’s Odes, which can be roughly translated into English as “It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s own ...