What does Ars Longa Vita Brevis mean?

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What does Ars Longa Vita Brevis mean?

It's in Latin...

2006-12-06 00:26:55 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages

Or supposedly. My sister might have just made it up...

2006-12-06 00:32:00 · update #1

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It is a popular latin quote literally meaning 'Art is long, Life is brief', widely used by Roman writers and orators, including Horace and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC -AD 65 who famously used it in De Brevitate Vitae), but generally attributed to Hippocrates (460�370 B.C.) the Greek physician, speaking of medical practice

2006-12-06 00:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Shushana 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋

A very old (and very well-known) expression,
and it is Latin indeed:

Art is long, life is short

2006-12-06 08:44:55 · answer #2 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋