Dum vivimus vivamus

Philip Doddridge's portrait and his Coat of arms. The motto in the Coat of arms is Dum vivimus vivamus.

Dum vivimus vivamus is a Latin phrase that means "While we live, let us live."[1][2] It is often taken to be an epicurean declaration.[1]

This latin phrase was the motto of Philip Doddridge's coat of arms.[3]

Usage

It serves as the motto for Porcellian Club at Harvard. Emily Dickinson used the line in a whimsical valentine written to William Howland in 1852 and subsequently published in the Springfield Daily Republican:[4]

Sic transit gloria mundi
  How doth the busy bee,
 Dum vivimus vivamus,
  I stay my enemy!

It was also the motto inscribed on the sword of "Oscar" Gordon, the protagonist of Robert Heinlein's 1963 book "Glory Road".

Notes

  1. 1 2 "dum vivimus, vivamus". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ↑ dum vivimus vivamus, Merriam-Webster dictionary
  3. ↑ Orton, Job, Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge, p. 145.
  4. ↑ Benson Sewall, Richard, The Life of Emily Dickinson, Volumes 1-2, p. 450.

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