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". And it is the motto of The Knights of Momus, a New Orleans Carnival organization.


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.

References

  • Orton, Job (1766). Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of the Late Reverend Philip Doddridge. J. Eddowes.
  • Benson Sewall, Richard (1994). The Life of Emily Dickinson, Volumes 1-2. Harvard University Press.


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