Gaudeamus Igitur

I MISSED SOME PARTS!!! 1)Pereat tristitia, Pereant osores. Pereat diabolus, Quivis antiburschius Atque irrisores. -- ----- Let sadness perish! Let haters perish! Let the devil perish, Along with anybody else who is anti-scholarship And anti-intellectual! 2) Quis confluxus hodie Academicorum? E longinquo convenerunt, Protinusque successerunt In commune forum. ---- Why has such a multitude of the academy Come here today? They have come together from far and wide; And now forthwith they ascend Into the academic forum! 3)Vivat nostra societas, Vivant studiosi Crescat una veritas, Floreat fraternitas Patriae prosperitas ---- Long live our faculty association! Long live those devoted to learning! May unity in the truth increase, May our brotherhood And the prosperity of our country flourish! 4) Alta Mater floreat, Quae nos educavit; Caros et commilitones, Dissitas in regiones, Sparsos, congregavit ---- May our Nourishing Mother thrive, the university who has educated us! Dear ones and comrades from scattered regions, although divided, have now congregated! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student&Epicurean response (c.1287) to the Stoic Seneca&De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life)? Executive summary: 1. Life&short; so let&party. 2. We&headed for heaven or hell. 3. Death is unavoidable. 4. But the academic life is best. 5. Statesmen and benefactors sustain it. 6. We can&forget to praise women. 7. But we condemn all enemies of...