CVIII

If, Cominius, the consensus be that your white-haired

Old age, soiled by filthy habits, should come to an end,

I have no doubt that first your tongue, a curse on good men,

Should be cut out and given to the ravenous vulture,

While the black-throated raven feasts on your gouged eyes,

The dogs on your intestines, the wolves on what remains.