Cat 101

Question 1

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus
advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,

Answer 1

passing through many nations and over many seas i reach these miserable funeral rites, brother,

Question 2

ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.

Answer 2

so that i might give you the last gift of death and speak in vain to your mute ahses.

Question 3

quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.
heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,

Answer 3

since (indeed) fortune has taken you yourself away from me. Alas poor brother undeservingly taken from me,

Question 4

nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum
tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,

Answer 4

now however accept these gifts, which have been handed down in the ancient custom of our ancestor, the sad gifts to the grave

Question 5

accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,
atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.