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Quotation from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare by Horace

“What joy, for fatherland to die!”

Horace

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book III, Ode 2 (Angustam amice), trans. John Conington (1863)

Conington's rendering of dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, in the second Roman Ode on training the young in hardship.

Citation: "What joy, for fatherland to die!" — Horace, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book III, Ode 2 (Angustam amice), trans. John Conington (1863). (id horace-odes-q5)

Virtues: Fortitude

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