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Updated: June 17, 2025
It was the figure of a man in a pilgrim's garb, chained to the earth by small but innumerable ligaments, while a phantom likeness of himself, his shadow, was seen hastening down what seemed an interminable vista; and underneath were written the pathetic words of Horace "Patriae quis exul Se quoque fugit?"
Lydia, whose cheeks were burning and whose eyes were deep with unshed tears, twisted her hands uncomfortably and looked at Billy. "Go ahead, Lyd," he said, reassuringly. "Because it was right," she said, finally. "Because Ducit Amor Patriae -you know, because no matter whether the Indians were good or bad, we had made promises to them and they depended on us." She paused, struggling for words.
All this was no doubt very good for the service, but I had not yet attained sufficient amor patriae to prefer the public to myself: and I fairly wished the regulation and the makers of it in the cavern at New Providence just about the time of high-water. I put it to the ladies whether this was not a case of real distress, after all my hardships and my constancy, to be put off with such an excuse?
Every source of national happiness and prosperity was by this means destroyed. The possession of property became precarious; industry, in all its branches, was effectually discouraged, and the amor patriae, which had formerly been the animating principle of the nation, was almost universally extinguished.
It takes older men to understand you. I suppose your class has begun to talk about graduation. It's March now." "Yes," said Lydia. "We've chosen the class motto and the class color. I was chairman of the motto committee and we chose Ducit Amor Patriae and purple and white's our color." "For the land's sake," murmured Ma. "Why do you children always choose Latin or Greek mottoes?
"If it was necessary that a European should discover the existence of the continent," he afterward wrote, "in the name of Amor Patriae let a native explore its resources and boundaries. . . It is my wish to be the man." Cook's ships passed north to Oonalaska. Only twenty-five years before, the Indians of Oonalaska had massacred every white settlement on the island.
The social virtues were unknown, the amor patriae became a chimera.
If e'er he went into excess, 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; But he who would his subjects bless, Odd's fish! must wet his whistle first; And so from every cask they got, Our king did to himself allot, At least a pot. Sing ho, ho! &c. To all the ladies of the land, A courteous king, and kind, was he; The reason why you'll understand, They named him Pater Patriae.
"You ask if the character of Colonel John Laurens, as drawn in the Independent Chronicle of 2d of December last, is just. I answer, that such parts of the drawing as have fallen under my observation, is literally so; and that it is my firm belief his merits and worth richly entitle him to the whole picture. No man possessed more of the amor patriae.
The officers dread your spirit, and the privates envy your independence; they are most of them actuated by selfish views, while you, on the contrary, are glowing with the amor patriae, and think of nothing but how you can best serve your country. Such opposite qualities will never amalgamate together, and you may rely upon it that there is great danger in your situation."
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