Dying warrior

Text: DVLCE ET DECORVM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
It is sweet and glorious to die for fatherland.

Extract from Odae 3.2.13
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
Mors et fugacem persequitur virum
Nec parcit inbellis iuventae
Poplitibus timidoque tergo.

It is sweet and glorious to die for fatherland
Yet death overtakes not less the runaway
nor spares the limbs and coward
of faint-hearted youths.

Dying ancient warrior from the temple on Aigina and the goddess of Rome.

Michel 554, Sassone 405, AFA 486

Date of issue: 1936

Face value: 2.55+1 l.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:49