Frater Ave, Atque Vale

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus

advenio has miseras, frater, ad inferias,

Having been carried through many people and many seas, I come to, brother, these wretched offerings of the dead

ut te postremo donarem munere mortis

et mutam nequiquam adloquerer cinerem.

so that I may present you with the final gift of death and address in vain the silent ash

Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum.

Heu miser indigne frater adempte mihi,

since fortune took you yourself away from me.

Alas miserable brother taken away from me undesirably

nunc tamen interea haec, prisco quae more parentum

tradita sunt tristi munere ad inferias,

Now, nevertheless, meanwhile, accept these things which have been handed over by the ancient custom of our parents as a sad duty of the dead

accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,

atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.

these things dripping much with brotherly tears

and into forever, brother, hello and goodbye