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MVLTAS per gentes et multa per aequora uectus
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Wandering through many countries and over many seas
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aduenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
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I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies,
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ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
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to present you with the last guerdon of death,
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et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.
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and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes,
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quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.
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since fortune has taken your own self away from me
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heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,
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alas, my brother, so cruelly torn from me!
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nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum
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Yet now meanwhile take these offerings, which by the custom of our fathers
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tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,
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have been handed down -- a sorrowful tribute -- for a funeral sacrifice;
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accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,
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take them, wet with many tears of a brother,
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atque in perpetuum, frater, aue atque uale.
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and for ever, O my brother, hail and farewell!
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