Si, Comini, populi arbitrio tua cana senectus
spurcata impuris moribus intereat,
non equidem dubito quin primum inimica bonorum
lingua exsecta avido sit data vulturio,
effossos oculos voret atro gutture coruus,
intestina canes, cetera membra lupi.

If, Cominus, by the will of the people,
you should die in grizzled old age,
depraved by impure customs,
I for my part do not doubt that first
your tongue, having been cut out
as the enemy of good men,
would be given to a greedy vulture,
a raven would devour your gouged-out eyes
with his black throat, dogs your intestines,
and wolves the rest of your limbs.