It is a modern paraphrase of ideas that comes from two ancient writers, Theocritus and Cicero. This Latin phrase means “While I breathe, I hope”. Historians believed it was his personal motto. Sarawak’s Dum Spiro SperoĬharles I of England was the monarch over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649.ĭuring his final imprisonment, he wrote “Dum spiro Spero” on a copy of The Faerie Queene which was one of the books Charles I read before he died. Sarawak’s motto was Dum spiro spero while North Borneo embodied the phrase Pergo et Perago. Like many European administrations of the 19th century, these two regions adopted Latin phrases as their states’ mottos. Long before there were Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, there were North Borneo and the Kingdom of Sarawak.
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