Latin[6] |
English[citation needed] |
English (Mark Sugars, 1997) |
Gaudeamus igitur,
Iuvenes dum sumus!
Post iucundam iuventutem
Post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus. |
So, let us rejoice
While we are young.
After a pleasant youth
After a troublesome old age
The earth will have us. |
While we're young, let us rejoice,
Singing out in gleeful tones;
After youth's delightful frolic,
And old age (so melancholic!),
Earth will cover our bones. |
Ubi sunt, qui ante nos
In mundo fuere,
Vadite ad superos,
Transite ad inferos,
Ubi iam fuere. |
Where are they who, before us,
Were in the world?
Go to the heavens
Cross over into hell
Where they went through already. |
Where are those who trod this globe
In the years before us?
They in hellish fires below,
Or in Heaven's kindly glow,
Swell th' eternal chorus. |
Vita nostra brevis est,
Brevi finietur,
Venit mors velociter,
Rapit nos atrociter,
Nemini parcetur. |
Our life is brief
Soon it will end.
Death comes quickly
Snatches us cruelly
To nobody shall it be spared. |
Life is short and all too soon
We emit our final gasp;
Death ere long is on our back;
Terrible is his attack;
None escapes his dread grasp. |
Vivat Academia,
Vivant professores,
Vivat membrum quodlibet,
Vivant membra quaelibet,
Semper sint in flore! |
Long live the academy!
Long live the professors!
Long live each student;
Long live the whole fraternity;
For ever may they flourish! |
Long live our academy,
Teachers whom we cherish;
Long live all the graduates,
And the undergraduates;
Ever may they flourish. |
Vivant omnes virgines
Faciles, formosae
Vivant et mulieres
Tenerae, amabiles
Bonae, laboriosae. |
Long live all virgins,
Easy [and] beautiful!
Long live [mature] women too,
Tender [and] lovable,
Good [and] hard-working. |
Long live all the maidens fair,
Easy-going, pretty;
Long live all good ladies who
Are tender and so friendly to
Students in this city. |
Vivat et respublica,
Et qui illam regit,
Vivat nostra civitas,
Maecenatum caritas,
Quae nos hic protegit. |
Long live the state as well
And he who rules it!
Long live our city
[And] the charity of benefactors
Which protects us here! |
Long live our Republic and
The gentlefolk who lead us;
May the ones who hold the purse
Be always ready to disburse
Funds required to feed us. |
Pereat tristitia,
Pereant osores,
Pereat diabolus,
Quivis Antiburschius,
Atque irrisores. |
May sadness perish!
May haters perish!
May the devil perish!
And also the opponents of the fraternities
And their mockers, too! |
Down with sadness, down with gloom,
Down with all who hate us;
Down with those who criticize,
Look with envy in their eyes,
Scoff, mock and berate us. |