UBI

The notes here are taken from the actual Scala, so be warned that references to the "previous" proverb refer to its order in the Scala, not its order here. You can read more about the word at the Verbosum blog: UBI.

Ubi sunt? ~ Note: The unexpressed subject of this verb is those who have passed on before us - where are they (now)? To learn about the poetic tradition associated with these words, see the Wikipedia article.

Ubi amor, ibi oculus. ~ Note: This is another ubi... ibi... type of proverb. For this proverb, the meaning is definitely spatial: Where someone's love is, there the eye looks!"

Patres vestri ubi sunt?

Ibi valet populus, ubi valent leges. ~ Note: Notice the correlative use of "ibi... ubi..." - where (when) the laws are strong, there (then) the people are strong.

Ubi amor, ibi fides.

Ubi bonum, mihi patria. ~ Note: The idea here is that your patria is more than just where you are born - it is where things are good, ubi bonum.

Patria est ubi bene est. ~ Note: This proverb opts to use the verb "est" with bene, creating a nice parallelism (one of the favorite stylistic devices of proverbs): Patria EST ubi bene EST.

Ibi patria, ubi bene. ~ Note: Note the use of the adverb, bene, without a specified verb - the idea being that it implies all kinds of verbs: where you (live, eat, drink, fare) well, there is your homeland.

Patria est ubi bene sit cuique. ~ Note: This takes the same idea and states it as a hypothetical with the subjunctive sit and the pronoun quisque: Where(ever) it might be good for any(one), that is their homeland.

Ubi amor, ibi dolor. ~ Note: This is another one of those correlative ubi...ibi proverbs: Where (when) there is love, there is heartache.

Ubi pericula, ibi gloria. ~ Note: This is another one of those ubi...ib... proverbs, of which you have seen several examples already: Ubi concordia, ibi victoria; Ubi spes, ibi pax, etc.

Ubi opes, ibi amici. ~ Note: Note that this expresses the more cynical idea, in contrast to the preceding proverb - this time, the idea is that where there are riches, then there are friends.

Ubi amici, ibi sunt opes. ~ Note: This is in contrast to the more cynical idea that wealth gives you friends (e.g. Amicos pecuniae faciunt). Here the idea is that friends are a kind of wealth in and of themselves, a resource you can draw on, opes. This is one of the sayings that Erasmus included in his Adagia, 1.3.24; it is included by Polydorus in his Adagia, A17.

Quam miserum est, ubi consilium casu vincitur! ~ Note: The quam here is exclamatory: quam miserum est, what a wretched thing it is!

Ubi spes, ibi pax. ~ Note: You have two new words with this proverb, which form a correlative pair: ubi / ibi. When used in reference to time, they mean "when... then..." but when used in reference to space, they mean "where... there..." If you are translating into English, you have to choose one or the other (even if the Latin itself is undetermined). For this saying, for example, you could go either way - "When there's hope, there is peace" or "Where there's hope, there is peace." Either way works in English for this particular saying.

Ubi omnis vita metus est, mors est optima. ~ Note: This is another one of the sayings collected by Publilius Syrus.

Ubi maior est, minor cedat. ~ Note: Note the subjunctive: cedat, let the lesser make way.

Ubi peccat aetas maior, male discit minor. ~ Note: This is another one of the sayings collected by Publilius Syrus.

Ubi non est scientia animae, non est bonum. ~ Note: The words are from the Biblical book of Proverbs, 19.

Mortem ubi contemnas, omnes viceris metus. ~ Note: This too comes from Publilius Syrus.

Illic enim patria est, ubi tibi sit bene.

Tuti sunt omnes, unus ubi defenditur.

Nusquam melius morimur homines, quam ubi libenter viximus. ~ Note: This is another one of the sayings collected by Publilius Syrus. Note the perfect form of vivo: viximus.

Ubi thesaurus, ibi oculus. ~ Note: Compare the saying you saw earlier: Ubi amor, ibi oculus.

Ubi thesaurus tuus, ibi et cor tuum. ~ Note: You can find these words in the Gospel of Matthew, 6, and the saying is included by Polydorus in his Adagia, B140.

Ubi dolor, ibi digitus. ~ Note: Note the nice alliteration in this one: dolor-digitus. For the odd story of this saying in a funeral inscription for a boy killed by a tennis ball, see the information about the Stanley child effigy in the Arderne Tomb.

Ubi timor, ibi et pudor. ~ Note: This is one of the sayings that Erasmus included in his Adagia, 1.2.64.

Non prodest ratio, ubi vis imperat. ~ Note: Here the opposition is not between truth and force as in the previous saying, but between reason and force, ratio and vis.

Ubi panis, ibi patria.

Ubi lupus iudex, ibi abeant oves.

Ubi coepit ditem pauper imitari, perit.

Nil est miserius, quam ubi pudet, quod feceris.

Ubi libertas cecidit, audet libere nemo loqui.

Ubi libertas, ibi patria. ~ Note: This is a motto of the Baillie family.

Ubi sunt divitiae, ibi est invidia. ~ Note: This is another one of those ubi...ib... proverbs: Where (when) there is wealth, there is envy.

Omnes aequo animo parent, ubi digni imperant.

Omnes aequo animo parent, digni ubi imperant.

Pomum suave est, tunc ubi custos abest.

Spiritus, ubi vult, spirat. ~ Note: This saying is included by Polydorus in his Adagia, B253.

Stultum est queri de adversis, ubi culpa est tua.

Ubi veritas, Deus ibi est. ~ Note: This is another "ubi...ibi..." saying where the notion seems more definitely spatial rather than temporal: Where there is truth...

Ubi amici, ibidem opes.

Ubi quis dolet, ibidem et manum habet. ~ Note: Note that quis here has the force of aliquis.

Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.

Ubi meum invenio, ibi vindico.

Exsul ubi nusquam domus est, sine sepulcro est mortuus.

Ubi iudicat, qui accusat, vis, non lex valet.

Heu, quam miserum est discere servire, ubi dominari doctus es.

In admonendum sapimus omnes; verum ubi peccamus ipsi, non videmus propria.

Ubi plurimae segetes, ibi manifesta fortitudo bovis.

Malus, bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus.

Ubi periculum, ibi lucrum.

Mus sapiens aetatem non cubili uni unquam committit suam.

Ubi concordia, ibi victoria. ~ Note: This is another one of those correlative ubi...ibi proverbs: Where (when) there is agreement, there is victory.

Ibi semper est victoria, ubi concordia est. ~ Note: This expresses the idea more emphatically with "semper."

Ubi Petrus, ibi et Ecclesia.

Vae miseris ovibus, iudex lupus est ubi saevus.

Fulmen est, ubi cum potestate habitat iracundia. ~ Note: This is another one of the sayings collected by Publilius Syrus.

Da ubi consistam, et terram caelumque movebo.

Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est.

Ubi tranquilla tibi omnia videntur, ibi nocitura non desunt sed quiescunt.

Ubi apes, ibi mel.

Ubi mel, ibi apes.

Ubi multi sunt vituli, ibi multi erunt boves.

Famulatur dominus, ubi timet quibus imperat.

Famulatur dominus, ubi timet, quibus imperat.

Pellem indue vulpis, ubi leonis deficit.

Non domus est pacis, ubi regnat lingua loquacis. ~ Note: This is one of the sayings collected by Wegeler, 721.

Nemo scit ubi calceus urat, nisi qui eum portat.

Esto leo ubi oportet, esto et simia interdum. ~ Note: Note the adverbial use of "et" here, meaning something like "even" or "also" - you might even have to play the monkey every once in a while.

Ubi unitas, ibi perfectio.

Ubi Bacchus regnat, Venus saltat.

Ubi mel, ibi fel. ~ Note: This is one of the sayings collected by Wegeler, 1390, and it is included by Polydorus in his Adagia, A47.

Pluit vitium ubi pluit aurum. ~ Note: Of course, the most famous instance of "raining gold" (when Jupiter seduced Danae) is not exactly an example of moral virtue! Here, of course, the metaphor is about the superabundance of money (gold), and how that leads to a superabundance of moral failings.

Ubi non sunt boves, praesepe vacuum est.

Ubi mulieres, ibi parabolae.

Ubi mulieres, ibi parabolae. ~ Note: You can find this saying in the famous debate between Marcolf and King Solomon.

Utendum est noctuis, ubi desunt lusciniae.

Facile est autem, ubi omnia quadrata currunt.

Spiritus flat, ubi vult.

Ubi deficiunt vires, astu utendum.

Ubi triticum non est, ibi non est farina.

Mus debacchatur, ubi cattus non dominatur.

Via impiorum tenebrosa; nesciunt ubi corruant.

Ibi pote valere populus, ubi leges valent.

Tranquillitas ubi adest, procellas prospice. ~ Note: This is a saying by Janus Anysius (Giovanni Aniso); his sayings were sometimes published together with the ancient sayings of Publilius Syrus.

Ubi est multitudo sine ordine, ibi est confusio. ~ Note: