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What does 'invictus' mean?

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Invictus is the Latin word for "unconquered." It is also the title of a nineteenth-century http://www.answers.com/topic/invictus-1 written by http://www.answers.com/topic/william-henley. Henley wrote the poem as he lay in a hospital bed, recovering from the amputation of his leg after a long battle with http://www.answers.com/topic/tuberculosis of the bone. During http://www.answers.com/topic/nelson-mandela 27-year captivity as a political prisoner, he kept a copy of the inspirational poem on the wall of his cell. Mandela was released from prison on this date in 1990. Director http://www.answers.com/topic/clint-eastwood acclaimed film http://www.answers.com/topic/the-human-factor-2009-film tells the story of how Mandela, South Africa's first black president, joined forces with the captain of the national rugby team, http://www.answers.com/topic/francois-pienaar, to get South Africa's http://www.answers.com/topic/south-africa-national-rugby-union-team to the http://www.answers.com/topic/rugby-world-cup finals. They saw it as a way to begin the healing of a nation that had been torn apart by http://www.answers.com/topic/apartheid.

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Invictus means "unbound" in Latin. The famous Roman feast Sol Invictus means the Unbound Sun and refers to the Winter solstice when the hours of daylight began to increase again.
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