squirrelly@glykon:~/catullus

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$ cat catullus_101.txt

    through many realms and many rivers sent
    i come to this miserable, o brother, this miserable funeral
    that to you at last i might finally give these deathgifts
    and that to mute ashes i might uselessly speak
    INDEED FORTUNA HAS TAKEN YOU FROM ME YOURSELF
    O, POOR BROTHER, TAKEN UNDESERVEDLY FROM ME
    now--however--meanwhile--these things, which in our ancestral custom
    was handed down, these mournful gravegifts, 
    accept them drenched with a brother's tears
    and for-ever, o brother, good morning and good night.

    Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
    advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
    ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
    et mutam nequiquam adloquerer cinerem,
    quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum,
    heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi.
    nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum
    tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,
    accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu
    atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

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