Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ubi sunt (literally \"where are... [they]\") 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.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 goliardic 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?"@en }
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- Ubi_sunt abstract "Ubi sunt (literally \"where are... [they]\") 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.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 goliardic 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?".