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Ubi sunt is a rhetorical question taken from the Latin phrase Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning 'Where are those who were before us?'. Ubi nunc is a common variant.

Sometimes interpreted to indicate nostalgia, the ubi sunt motif is a meditation on mortality, life's transience, and an awareness of history.

Ubi sunt is a phrase which was originally derived from a

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