live and let live

00:25 Jun 17, 2007
English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
English term or phrase: live and let live
A phrase for which I would like to see in Latin.

To be concerned one with one's own life, while freeing others to be concerned about their own life.
Carol Ryan


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5vive aliisque vivatur
Joseph Brazauskas


  

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vive aliisque vivatur


Explanation:
'Vive' is simply imperative singular active. 'Vivatur' is an impersonal passive form of a type of independent subjunctive variously styled 'jussive', 'hortatory', or 'volitive', such impersonal passives often being equivilent to a reflexive verb in Romance, and means literally 'let it be lived'. 'Aliis' is an ethical dative (otherwise termed a dative of interest), indicating the person or thing in the sentence to which 'vivatur' makes reference, and is not to be confused with an ablative of agent, though it may be rendered by 'by others'. '-Que' is simply an enclitic meaning 'and'; it binds the thought between 'vive' and 'aliisque vivatur' more closely than its synonyms 'et' or 'atque' would.

More colloquially, the whole may be expressed in English, 'Live and let others live'.



Joseph Brazauskas
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