Oops. I'll correct it.The plural imperative is vivite.
I understand that, but I interpreted "Live to learn from another day" as "live so that you can learn something on another day". A "day" itself can't teach you anything, unless maybe you're observing the actual daylight cycle. But maybe that's what's meant here.Alio die means "on another day". You need ex for "from".
It can, in a metaphorical sense. You can learn something from a day because you can draw some lessons from what you've seen, heard, or experienced on that day. That's how I interpret the English, and I don't think there's any reason not to reproduce the metaphor in Latin.A "day" itself can't teach you anything
L&S dixit:
The plural imperative is vivite.
Alio die means "on another day". You need ex for "from".
That's a valid perspective, but ex aliquo discere seems strange for "to learn from someone". Isn't that pretty much the same thing as "to learn by means of someone"?
That is what I was interpreting, couldn't have said it better myself,It can, in a metaphorical sense. You can learn something from a day because you can draw some lessons from what you've seen, heard, or experienced on that day. That's how I interpret the English, and I don't think there's any reason not to reproduce the metaphor in Latin.
I'm about 80% sure that dies should be masculine here, but then again, I could be wrong. Thoughts, others?
Did not know that. Good know.In prose, the feminine version is often used in the sense of an appointed day (e.g. a day on which a sum is due or things like that).
Hence: dies irae, dies illa...
Ascribing the classical distinction only to Cicero and Caesar may be a bit of an exaggeration, though. I haven't studied the question but I'm almost sure the distinction was also made by Silver Age authors, at least most of the time.
The feminine is indeed used more randomly in late/medieval Latin (as in one of my favorite Bible passages: pereat dies in qua natus sum et nox in qua dictum est 'conceptus est homo' etc.).
Ascribing the classical distinction only to Cicero and Caesar may be a bit of an exaggeration, though. I haven't studied the question but I'm almost sure the distinction was also made by Silver Age authors, at least most of the time.