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ubi sunt
''Ubi sunt'' (literally "where are... ()") is a phrase taken from the Latin ''Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?'', meaning "Where are those who were before us?" ''Ubi nunc...?'' ("Where now?") is a common variant.〔See the examples in James W. Bright, "The 'ubi sunt' Formula" ''Modern Language Notes' 8.3 (March 1893:94).〕
Sometimes interpreted to indicate nostalgia, the ''ubi sunt'' motif is actually a meditation on mortality and life's transience.
''Ubi sunt'' is a phrase that begins several Latin medieval poems and occurs, for example, in the second stanza of the student song "De Brevitate Vitae", known from its ''incipit'' as "Gaudeamus Igitur": "Ubi sunt qui ante nos / In mundo fuere?", "Where are those who, before us, existed in the world?" The theme was the common property of medieval Latin poets: Cicero may not have been available, but Boethius' line was known: ''Ubi nunc fidelis ossa Fabricii manent?''
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