But now these gifts, which of yore, in manner ancestral handed down, are the sad gifts to the grave, accept thou, drenched with a brother’s tears, and for ever, brother, hail! for ever, adieu!
Catullus (translated by Leonard C. Smithers)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Carmina CI, On the Burial of His Brother (1894 English prose translation); Final complete prose passage from public-domain1894edition, with entire poem and titlepage read. Titlepage explicitly assigns prose to Leonard C. Smithers and verse to Richard F. Burton; this is Smithers, not Burton. Ritual g
- Carmina CI, On the Burial of His Brother (1894 English prose translation)
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