“live” in Latin

LIVING, adjective, PROP., vivus, vivens (opposed to mortuus: vivus, when mere existence is to be expressed; vivens, of a way and manner of existence): spirans (that breathes): salvus (safe): animatus, animalis, animal (endued with life; opposed to inanimis): nothing living, nullum animal: a living model, exemplum animale (Cic., De Invent., 2, 1, 2): Cato, a living image of virtue, Cato virtutum viva imago: a living language, *lingua, qua etiam nunc utuntur homines; also, perhaps, *lingua viva: to find anybody still living, aliquem vivum reperire (still among the living); aliquem adhuc spirantem reperire (still breathing, not yet quite dead). To deliver a person living, or dead into anybody’s hands, aliquem aut vivum aut mortuum in alicujus potestatem dare.

To have life, continue in life, vivere (general term): esse (to be, exist, εἶναι: Vid: Herzog, Sall., Cat., 18, 4): in vita esse (to be alive): spirare (to breathe; hence of statues, etc., which seem to breathe): vigere (to have a living appearance, of plants). Cic., and others, in the higher style, and for the sake of emphasis, used also sometimes the figurative, lucem aspicere, intueri, vivere et anima frui (opposed to hac luce carere): still to live, adhuc vivere, in vivis esse (to be still alive): superesse, superstitem esse (to be not yet dead): to let anyone live, vitae alicujus parcere, consulere (to spare his life): alicui lucis usuram dare (to allow to live): not to let one live an hour longer, unius horae usuram alicui ad vivendum non dare: we ought to live for others as well as ourselves, non nobis solum nati sumus: not to be able to live without anything, aliqua re carere non posse; without anybody, sine aliquo vivere non posse (e.g., unum diem): to be living too long for anybody, mea Jonginquitas aetatis alicui obest (Terentianus): to have lived long enough, satis vixisse; vitae satisfecisse: if he had lived longer, si vita longior suppetisset, si vita data esset longior: the bravest man that ever lived, unus post homines natos fortissimus vir: as long as I live, per omnem vitam; me vivo; dum vivo; dum spiro; dum vivam; dum spirare potero; dum vita suppetit, quoad vitae suppeditat; quoad vivo: if I live, si vita suppetet; si vita mihi contigerit (Planc., in Cic., Ep., 10, 24, 3): as true as I live, ita vivam: to live to see, videre (e.g., a day, fortune, etc.): to live to see one’s sixtieth year, pervenire ad annum sexagesimum; ad annum sexagesimum ducere spiritum: I wish I might live to see those times, opto, ut possim ad id tempus reipublicae spiritum ducere: I hope to live to see something, spero aliquid me vivo futurum esse: I have lived to see the times, incidit aetas mea in ea tempora.

Tu spend or pass one’s life; (a) in respect of the way or manner, for what, whence, or where one lives, vivere: to live with anybody, vivere cum aliquo (i. e., in habits of intimacy with him): to live upon anything; e.g., in tenui pecunia vivere: tantum habere quantum satis ad usus necessarios (to have enough to live upon): to live an abstemious life (for the sake of one’s health), valetudinem suam curare (general term); continentem esse in victu cultuque corporis tuendi causa. (after Cic., Off., 2, 24, 86): to live to or for a thing, alicui rei se dedisse, alicui rei deditum esse (e.g., litteris, voluptatibus); alicui rei operam dare, studere (to bestow pains; e.g., litteris: ☞ vacare alicui rei in this sense is quite unclassical): to live entirely in a thing, vivere in aliqua re (e.g., litteris); totum esse in aliqua re (Vid: Schmid., Hor., Ep., 1, 1, 11): to live in hope, spem habere; in spe esse: to live for or to one’s self, secum, ut dicitur, vivere, se frui (to enjoy one’s life): suum negotium gerere (to live without care of other person’s business): otiari, vitam in otio degere (to spend one’s life in ease): to live from, by, or upon anything, vivere (de) aliqua re (general term): vesci aliqua re (to have anything for one’s food): ali aliqua re (to support one’s self on anything): vitam sustentare aliqua re (by any trade or business; e.g., corollas venditando); victum quaerere or quaeritare aliqua re (to seek a livelihood by anything; e.g., lana ac tela, Ter., Andr., 1, 1, 48): to live poorly upon anything, vitam tolerare aliqua re (of food or of business; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G. 7, 77 extr.; Ruhnken, Ter., Ad., 5, 3, 23): to live on charity, aliena misericordia vivere: to have enough to live upon, rem habere (Vid: Cic., Off., 2, 21, 73); habeo unde vivam, utar: to live well, laute vivere (in affluence and comfort): luxuriose vivere (in luxury): to live poorly, parce ac duriter vivere; vitam inopem tolerare: to live near, accolere alicui loco, or locum: to live in a place, vivere (in) aliquo loco; esse, versari (in) aliquo loco: to live a long time in a place, commorare in aliquo loco: to live under the same roof with anyone, sub uno tecto esse: to live in society, in circulis esse, versari; in hominum celebritate versari: to live at court, *in regia or in aula esse; *inter aulicos versari: (b) of the state in which one lives, vivere (with an adverb or other definitive word; vitam agere, degere, with an adjective, with vitam: ☞ rarely vitam vivere: aetatem agere or gerere is not classical): to live happily, feliciter, beate vivere; vitam agere felicem: to live miserably, misere vivere: to live in want, in egestate vitam degere: to live in peace, sine injuria et in pace vivere: to live from hand to mouth, in diem vivere (i. e., without thinking of to-morrow).