Last year during spring break I encountered the latin motto carpe diem on a mans forearm as a tattoo. Carpe diem means “seize the day” and it originated in 23 bc from Horace. This phrase is typically used as an encouragement to live your life to the fullest everyday. I think that this phrase used as a tattoo would normally be appropriate, however, when I asked the man with the tattoo what it meant, just for kicks, he told me he didn’t know and I hoped that the tattoo once meant something meaningful instead of a spur of the moment tattoo.
Frances Collins
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