pro patria
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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While Wilfred Owen denounced Horace’s patriotic maxim, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,” as “the old lie,” Kipling continued to read Horace, whom he had studied at school, throughout the war.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 25, 2015
His thesis is the juxtaposition of the great powers marching off in August 1914, with their banners and tootling – “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – and the reality of war.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2012
They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told the boys in the public schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
The renowned sentence of Cicero, "Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem," 11 is effective eloquence; but it is a baseless libel against humanity and the truth.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
It was a folio, pro patria size, in pica, with long-primer notes.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin
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