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In the video game Overwatch 2, The character "Soldier 76" uses the voice line "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi." In the feature film 'The Tracker' (2002) directed by Rolf de Heer, a fanatical policeman says "sic transit gloria mundi", each word accompanied by him pointing a pistol where the heads of a group of Indigenous Australians had been minutes ...
sic semper tyrannis: thus always to tyrants: Attributed to Brutus at the time of Julius Caesar's assassination and to John Wilkes Booth at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination; whether it was actually said at either of these events is disputed. State motto of Virginia, adopted in 1776. sic transit gloria mundi: thus passes the glory of ...
Pounde, humiliated, replied "Sic transit gloria mundi" and thenceforward retired from court life. [ 2 ] Shortly afterwards he was reconciled to the Roman Catholic Church, probably by Father Henry Alway , and, after some time of seclusion at Beaumond, began an active career as a proselytiser.
The poem reflects how short-lived and transient are both the human existence and the splendor of the world (sic transit gloria mundi), in contrast to God who is eternal and omnipresent. The shorter last line states that we are in his hands.
Joshua, the last crew member to board the starship, knocks the dirt from his sandals (a reference to Matthew 10:14, "If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet"), murmuring "Sic transit mundus" ("Thus passes the world", a play on the phrase sic transit gloria mundi, "thus ...
"Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades" is a single by American rock band Brand New from their second album Deja Entendu. "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" was released to radio on November 18, 2003. [2] The title itself comes from the 1998 film Rushmore, "Sic transit gloria... Glory fades" being one of main character Max Fischer's most memorable ...
Recalling from my latin lessons in secondary school, the phrase whispered by the slave accompanying the general on triumph was "Memento mori", rather than "Sic transit gloria Mundi". This also agrees better with the article on the latter: Memento mori. Unfortunately, I cannot provide references compelling enough to warrant a change.
The consolatio literary tradition ("consolation" in English) is a broad literary genre encompassing various forms of consolatory speeches, essays, poems, and personal letters. consolatio works are united by their treatment of bereavement, by unique rhetorical structure and topoi, and by their use of universal themes to offer solace. [ 3 ]