ita vivam

Adverb

 * 1) as true as I live, so may I live
 * 2) * Letters to friends (on Wikisource) by Cicero (text may be found here in Latin and English)
 * Extrema pagella pupugit me tuo chirographo. Quid ais? Caesarem nunc defendit Curio? Quis hoc putaret, praeter me? Nam, ita vivam, putavi.
 * Your last page, in your own handwriting, was like a dagger in my heart. What say you? Curio now standing up for Caesar? Who had ever expected it? No one but myself! For, as I live, I thought that would happen.