[minstrel: Vivat the Dream]

[Vanessa Layne]

> Thank you for this note.  Does anyone know why we don't actually use the
> imperative?  "Vive" for singular, "Vivete" for plural?

Yes.  It is the "exhortatory subjunctive".  We're not ordering these
people to live ("vivete!" == "Live, y'all!"), we're exclaiming "May it
be that they live!"

And furthermore, it is, I understand, the period usage. :)

-- Tibicen

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