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ubi or ubī adv.

old cubi for quo-bi, locat. from 1 qui.—Relat., in which place, in what place, where : tum eos agros, ubi hodie est haec urbs, incolebant: in ipso aditu atque ore portūs, ubi, etc.: ibi futuros Helvetios, ubi eos Caesar constituisset, Cs.: nemo sit, quin ubivis, quam ibi, ubi est, esse malit: quid ageres, ubi terrarum esses.—Interrog, where? : ubi inveniam Pamphilum? T.: ubi sunt, qui negant? etc.: Heu! ubi nunc fastus altaque verba iacent? O.—Of time, when, whenever, as soon as, as : Ubi friget, huc evasit, T.: ubi semel quis peieraverit, ei credi postea non oportet: ubi de eius adventu certiores facti sunt, legatos ad eum mittunt, Cs.: docta Versare glaebas . . . sol ubi montium Mutaret umbras, H.: ubi conticuerit tumultus, tum in curiam patres revocandos esse, L. —In place of a pron relat., in which, by which, with which, wherewith, with whom, by whom : Huius modi res semper comminiscere, Ubi me excarnifices, T.: cum multa conligeres . . . ubi, si verba, non rem sequeremur, confici nihil posset: neque nobis adhuc praeter te quisquam fuit, ubi nostrum ius obtineremus, with whom : Alcmene, questūs ubi ponat anilīs, Iolen habet, O.

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