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"Ave,
Imperator, morituri te salutant" or "Ave, Caesar, morituri te
salutant" ("Hail, Emperor (Caesar), those who are about to die salute
you") is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum
("The Life of the Caesars", or "The Twelve Caesars").[1] It
was used during an event in AD 52 on Lake Fucinus by naumachiarii—captives and
criminals fated to die fighting during mock naval encounters—in the presence of
the emperor Claudius. Suetonius reports that Claudius replied "Aut
non" ("or not").
Variant wordings
include "Ave Caesar" and "Nos morituri te salutamus"
[2]—the latter in the 1st person ("We who are about to die salute
you")[3]—and a response in 15th century texts of "Avete vos"
("Fare you well").[4]
Despite its
popularization in later times, the phrase is not recorded elsewhere in Roman
history, and it is questionable whether it was ever a customary salute. It was
more likely an isolated appeal by desperate captives and criminals condemned to
die, and noted by Roman historians in part for the unusual mass reprieve
granted to the survivors.
