The words that the slave is said to have used are not known, but suggestions include " Respice te, hominem te memento " (" Look behind you, remember you are only a man ") and " Memento mori " (" Remember ( that you are ) mortal ").

By the 15th century these could be extremely morbid and explicit, reflecting an increased obsession with death and decay also seen in the Ars moriendi, Danse Macabre, and the overlapping motif of the Memento mori.

* Memento mori

Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as " Remember your mortality ", " Remember you must die " or " Remember you will die ".

The servant is thought to have conveyed this with the warning, "< i > Memento mori </ i >".

Memento mori !</ i >": " Look behind you!

Memento mori was also an important literary theme.

In the late 16th and through the 17th century Memento mori rings were made.

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He asked the sacrister to take over his regular service, but unfortunately the latter couldn't remember the Latin words " Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris " ( Remember, man, that dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return ), which are to be proclaimed while applying a cross of ash to the foreheads of the churchgoers.

It has been supposed also that this name was given to the slave that, during Roman Triumphs, held a laurus crown over the head of the Dux, standing at his backs, but continuously whispering in his ears Memento homo ( remember you are ( only ) a man ), in order to avoid that the excess of celebration could lead the celebrated commander to lose his sense of proportions.

The trauma of the Black Death in the mid-14th century was at least partly responsible for the popularity of themes such as the Dance of Death and Memento mori.

* http :// www. danemunro. com / Layers. html an analysis of symbols of Death on the tombstones of the Knights of the Order of St John at the St John's Co-Cathedral at Valletta, Malta, as appearing in Dane Munro, ' Memento Mori, a companion to the most beautiful floor in the world ' ( Malta, 2005 ), 2 vols.

The monument is now located at the Memento Park open air museum.

The group faced a first major defeat at Breakpoint 2006, when " Memento " came only second behind Fairlight's " Meet the Family ".

It was common to display skeletons at some place in the theatre ; in Leiden, 17th century depictions show that the living observers were actually accompanied in the rows by a large number of animal and human skeletons, some of which held banners with inscriptions such as Memento mori, or, freely translated, " Remember, you will die ".

Memento ( 2000 ) a film inspired by the case of Henry Molaison ( H. M .).

* Who's Who of the Colored Race, Memento Edition Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom in U. S., reprinted by Gale Research Company, Book Tower Detroit, 1976.

Guy Edward Pearce ( born 5 October 1967 ) is an English-born Australian actor and musician, known for his roles as Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, Lieutenant Ed Exley in L. A.

Confidential, Ravenous, Rules of Engagement, Memento, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Time Machine.

Memento ( 2003 ) is said to be inspired by the condition of the famous amnesic patient known as HM.

She has had other notable roles in Memento, Chocolat, Fido, and Unthinkable.

She then starred with Guy Pearce in the thriller Memento for which Moss earned an Independent Spirit Award for her performance.

Additionally, some have interpreted the poem to be a Memento Mori.

Films which use metafictive devices include Adaptation, which wraps metafictively around the real-world non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, and Barton Fink, as well as the thrillers The Usual Suspects, Memento and Inception.

The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled For the Love of God, was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8, 601 diamonds weighing a total of 1, 106. 18 carats.

As Covenant, the three produced their first publicly-released track, " The Replicant ", by invitation of Swedish record label Memento Materia.

In addition, Covenant was signed with SubSpace Communications in Sweden, effectively ending their tenure with Memento Materia.

Also there is a Xerces Blue in a Silent Hill's Memento called Pinned Beauty.

A man with Anterograde memory loss named Jimmy G. is the subject of one chapter, sharing the name of a character in Memento, a movie where the main protagonist has the same defect.