FAREWELL Copy link • FAREWELLvale! fac ut valeas! cura ut valeas! (in taking leave, and at the end of letters): have! haveto! (over a dead body). ☞ Vale may also be used substantively (☞ Ov., Her., 13, 14, vix potuit dicere triste vale). To bid anybody farewell, salvere or valere aliquem jubere; alicui valedicere (post-Augustan): to bid anybody a hearty farewell, multam salutem alicui dicere: to take a last farewell of anybody, ultimum or supremum alicui vale dicere (poetically): to go away without bidding anybody farewell, insalutatum relinquere aliquem (after Verg., Aen., 9, 228). FIG., I will bid farewell to the forum and the Senate-house, multam salutem et foro dicam et curiae: to bid the world farewell, renunciare vitae (Suet., Galb. 11). A farewell poem, propempticon (as title to Statius, Sylv., 3, 2, and Sidon., Carm., 24): a farewell dinner, cena viatica (Plaut., Bacch., 1, 1, 61).