MVLTAS per gentes et multa per aequora uectus	1	Wandering through many countries and over many seas
aduenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,	2	I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies,
ut te postremo donarem munere mortis	3	to present you with the last guerdon of death,
et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem.	4	and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes,
quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.	5	since fortune has taken your own self away from me
heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,	6	alas, my brother, so cruelly torn from me!
nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum	7	Yet now meanwhile take these offerings, which by the custom of our fathers
tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,	8	have been handed down -- a sorrowful tribute -- for a funeral sacrifice;
accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,	9	take them, wet with many tears of a brother,
atque in perpetuum, frater, aue atque uale.	10	and for ever, O my brother, hail and farewell!