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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dona eam requiem 

Magistra Ward, ave et vale.

Ms. Ward, you were one of the best teachers I've ever had. I wish I'd told you that when you could hear it. Thank you for everything you've taught me.

Multas per gentes et multa per aequora uectus
aduenio 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, aue atque uale.
- Catullus, Ode CI

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