Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/us/16brown.html?ref=obituaries
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 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. 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. (Through many peoples and many seas have I travelled to thee, brother, and these wretched rites of death I bring a last gift but can speak only to ashes Since Fortune has taken you from me Poor brother! stolen you away from me leaving me only ancient custom to honour you as it has been from generation to generation Take from my hands these sad gifts covered in tears Now and forever, brother, Hail and farewell.)
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Rest in Peace, Sir.
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted August 16, 2011 Author Posted August 16, 2011 Thanks for the Catullus quote, Joe. I'm saving that.
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Thanks for the Catullus quote, Joe. I'm saving that. You are most welcome, sir. I like to see the whole thing now and then, since usually all you get are the last three words, ave atque vale.
Pulp, SASS#28319 Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 I can't even begin to imagine the sheer will to survive it took for men like him. I know what would've happened to me.
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 There are simply no words that are adequate!
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 Wow...a long and adventurous life indeed. GG
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