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The motto came from Ovid, whom many call a frivolous poet; but the frivolous Roman was after all a Roman, and he was young when he wrote the line, too young not to feel the generous swell of true feeling. It was written of the dead brothers of Briseis: Qui bene pro patria cum patriaque iacent. The sentiment found an echo at the time, deserved an echo at the time.
They have their victory; let them leave us our graves." An intense loyalty, not only to the political theories of the South, but to the memory of the men who died for them "qui bene pro patria cum patriaque jacent" still animates the survivors of the war.
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