Adveni has miseras frater ad inferias.
Ut te postremo donarem munere mortis
Et mutum nequidquam alloquerer cinerem.
Quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum
Has miser indigne frater adempte mihi!
Nunc tamen interea prisco quæ more parentum
Tradita sub tristes munera ad inferias
Accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu
Atque in perpetuum frater ave atque vale!
On his return to Rome he resumed his old habits, and died in the prime of life, probably B. C. 47, as that is the latest date to which allusion is made in his writings.