Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Carpe Diem

Enjoy yourself while you have the opportunity. Seize the present day. (Horace: 1 Odes, xi. 8.) “Dum vivimus, vivamus.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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