ita vivam
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
(Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.ta ˈu̯iː.u̯am/, [ˈɪt̪ä ˈu̯iːu̯ä̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.ta ˈvi.vam/, [ˈiːt̪ä ˈviːväm]
Adverb edit
ita vīvam (not comparable)
- as true as I live, so may I live
- Letters to friends (on Wikisource) by Cicero (text may be found here in Latin and English)
- Extrema pagella pupugit me tuo chirographo. Quid ais? Caesarem nunc defendit Curio? Quis hoc putaret, praeter me? Nam, ita vivam, putavi.
- Your last page, in your own handwriting, was like a dagger in my heart. What say you? Curio now standing up for Caesar? Who had ever expected it? No one but myself! For, as I live, I thought that would happen.
- Extrema pagella pupugit me tuo chirographo. Quid ais? Caesarem nunc defendit Curio? Quis hoc putaret, praeter me? Nam, ita vivam, putavi.
- Letters to friends (on Wikisource) by Cicero (text may be found here in Latin and English)