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   Gaudeamus, Gaudeamus igitur (gouˌdā‑ȧˈmo͝osˌ), pr. n. [L.]  The name of a Latin song originating in the thirteenth century, celebrating the joy of youth as students in a university, and suggesting that they take advantage of youth before they succomb to inevitable old age and death.  It is still sung by students, often with verses altered to include themes pertinent to particular schools.
   
   
   
   Gaudeamus Igitur
   
   
   
   Gaudeamus igitur			Let us rejoice therefore
   
   Juvenes dum sumus			While we are young.
   
   Post jucundum juventutem		After a pleasant youth
   
   Post molestam senectutem		After a troublesome old age
   
   Nos habebit humus.			The earth will have us.
   
   
   
   Ubi sunt qui ante nos         Where are they
   
   In mundo fuere?			Who were in the world before us?
   
   Vadite ad superos			You may cross over to heaven
   
   Transite in inferos			You may go to hell
   
   Hos si vis videre.			If you wish to see them.
   
   
   
   Vita nostra brevis est		Our life is brief
   
   Brevi finietur.			It will be finished shortly.
   
   Venit mors velociter		Death comes quickly
   
   Rapit nos atrociter			Atrociously, it snatches us away.
   
   Nemini parcetur.			No one is spared.
   
   
   
   Vivat academia				Long live the academy!
   
   Vivant professores			Long live the teachers!
   
   Vivat membrum quodlibet		Long live each male student!
   
   Vivat membra quaelibet		Long live each female student!
   
   Semper sint in flore.		May they always flourish!
   
   
   
   Vivant omnes virgines		Long live all maidens
   
   Faciles, formosae..			Easy and beautiful!
   
   Vivant et mulieres			Long live mature women also,
   
   Tenerae amabiles			Tender and loveable
   
   Bonae laboriosae.			And full of good labor.
   
   
   
   Vivant et republica			Long live the State
   
   et qui illam regit.			And the One who rules it!
   
   Vivat nostra civitas,		Long live our City
   
   Maecenatum caritas			And the charity of benefactors
   
   Quae nos hic protegit.		Which protects us here!
   
   
   
   Pereat tristitia,			Let sadness perish!
   
   Pereant osores.			Let haters perish!
   
   Pereat diabolus,			Let the devil perish!
   
   Quivis antiburschius		Let whoever is against our school
   
   Atque irrisores.			Who laughs at it, perish!
   
   
   
   
   
   (Latin verses by  C. W. Kindeleben 1781)
   
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