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5 | vive aliisque vivatur |
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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'. |
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