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Fri 27 Jan, 2006 08:36 pm
Does anyone know how
"live to eat!"
translates into latin?
(so far I got "edam vivo", but that's "I live to eat" I think. I also came up with "vivo vescori" but the tenses might be wrong and I'm not sure about the difference in the actual word eat.)
thank you for some help!
The famous quotation from Quintillian is "Non ut edam vivo, sed ut vivam
edo", that is, "I do not live to eat, but eat to live."
What you want is the imperative. That would be:
Edere vive!
If you wanted to follow Quintillian more closely, you could phrase it:
Ut edas vive!
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