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What is the meaning of 'Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero'?
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∙ 14y ago
Seize the day, and trust tomorrow as little as possible.
Horace is telling his reader not to put off until tomorrow what you can enjoy today. Pleasure needs to be taken when you can get it.
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∙ 14y agoThe Latin command 'Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero' means Seize the day that [has] the fewest believing in posterity. The sentence therefore means never giving up, even when things look so bad that the day may not last, that you may not live through that day.
In the word-by-word translation, the imperative verb 'carpe' means '[you] seize, take advantage of'. The noun 'diem' means 'day'. The relative pronoun 'quam' means 'which'. The adjective 'minimum' means 'the fewest, the least, the minimum'. The adjective 'postero' means 'posterity'.
carpe is indeed imperative mood, but the word means "pluck" or "harvest" not seize. the word is probably related, if not borrowed from the Greek "karpos" meaning fruit. "postero" means with regard to the future.
So it's more like: harvest the day and don't trust too much in the future.
The line is from Horace's Odes Book I. Number 11. The poem is full allusions to agriculture like "pluck" and earlier line "prune back your desires". It's a great poem. There's a reason it's been around for a couple of thousand years.
If you're looking for something that actually means "never giving up, even when things look so bad" try the Aenead Book I: Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.
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Who is the author of carpe diem?
Quintus Horatius Flaccus [December 8, 65 B.C.E.-November 27, 8 B.C.E.] was a leading lyric poet of ancient Rome. He became known to the modern world through the Anglicization of his name as Horace. Among his odes, he penned a famous line that included the phrase 'Carpe diem'. He may not have invented the phrase. But he was the one who ensured the immortality of its use all the way down to the present day.
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Which of the quotations best relates to the concept of Carpe Diem?
The Latin poem. Horace, might well have been the first. It occurs in one of his odes (7, I think). "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula poster." The notion of seizing the day and enjoying time's transient pleasures was much to the liking, not of the Stoics, but the Epicureans. .........................................................................................................................
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Do you mean carpe diem? It means "seize the day". Carpe is the singular imperative form of the verb cárpere ("to seize") and diem is from the noun dies, "day".
