Gaudamus,

Gaudamus, the beginning of a famous German students' song in dog-Latin rhymes, of which the first line is Gaudamus igitur juvenes dum sumus ('Let us therefore rejoice while we are young'). It was first printed, in a somewhat coarser form than the present, and with Latin and German verses alternating, in 1776; and follows rather closely the thought and expression of an ancient Latin hymn of the year 1267. See Schwetschke, Zur Geschichte des Gaudamus (Halle, 1877).