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Catullus 101

Catullus travels to the foreign gravesite of his brother to perform the necessary funeral rituals and to say a final goodbye.

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Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.
quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum, ...............5
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.....................10

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Meter: elegiacs
3f. donarem, alloquerer: both 1st person imperfect subjunctive.
5. tete: emphatic form of te.
6. miser...adempte: Vocatives;
mihi: Dative with compound verb adempte, "from me".
7. haec: Accusative neuter plural, modifies manantia, object of accipe (line 9); 
quae: antecedent is haec.
8. tradita sunt: subject is quae (line 7); 
tristi: Ablative with munere; sc. cum.
9. manantia: with haec (line 7), object of accipe (line 9).
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