Catullus+101


 * Catullus 101**

//I arrive having been carried through many peoples and through many seas//
 * Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus**

//to these miserable funeral rites, brother.//
 * advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,**

//so that I will present you with this final offering of death.//
 * ut te postremo donarem munere mortis**

//and so that I would speak to the silent ashes in vain.//
 * et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem,**

//since, fortune has borne you yourself away from me//
 * 5 quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum,**

//alas, miserable brother carried from me undeservedly//
 * heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi.**

//Now however meanwhile, accept these things//
 * Nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum**

//which have been handed to you by the ancient custom of parents as a sad gift for funeral rights//
 * tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,**

//accept these things dripping much with brotherly tears//
 * accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,**

//and brother, hail and be well in eternity.//
 * 10 atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.**