For permission to reproduce the "Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori" portrait of John Tutchin as the frontispiece, I wish to express my thanks to the Trustees of the British Museum.
The "Pulchrum Est Pro Patria Mori" portrait, reprinted here as the frontispiece, was circulated to attest to Tutchin's political martyrdom.
Omne solum forti patria est=--To the brave man every land is his native land.
Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur=--Our country alone comprehends all our affections for all.
Patria cara, carior libertas=--Dear is my country, but liberty is dearer.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori=--It is 50 sweet and glorious to die for one's country.
Fortunato omne solum patria est=--To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.
It recognized at first the family only, and that family was held together by paternal power (patria potestas).
At one time the husband was held to possess the patria potestas, or paternal power, in its full force.
A roar of a thousand voices was heard singing the national hymn: "Chi per la patria muore Vessuto ha assai!
His first words, as he gained sensibility, were: "Chi per lapatria muore Vessuto ha assai!
An ill-knit nation which does not recognise paternity as a legal relation, would be conquered like a mob by any other nation which had a vestige or a beginning of the patria potestas.
And as he died in that great agony his face lit up, and calm and smooth came the grand old Roman verse: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Cui idcirco patria inter libros complures in linguam vernaculam translatos, etiam sacrosancta Biblia, elegantissimis typis Islandica lingua in officna ipsius excusa, in æternum debebit.
Perhaps he brought away with him from England in the early seventies a conception of the "patria potestas" which he would now find out of date there as well as here.
But the old patria potestas had become completely obsolete, and the practical effect of the general adoption of this form of marriage was the absolute legal independence of the wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patria" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
