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SI, Comini, populi arbitrio tua cana senectus
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IF, Cominius, your gray old age, soiled as it is by an impure life,
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spurcata impuris moribus intereat,
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should be brought to an end by the choice of the people,
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non equidem dubito quin primum inimica bonorum
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I for my part do not doubt that first of all your tongue, the enemy of all good people,
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lingua exsecta auido sit data uulturio,
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would be cut out and quickly given to the greedy vulture,
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effossos oculos uoret atro gutture coruus,
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your eyes torn out and swallowed down the raven's black throat,
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intestina canes, cetera membra lupi
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while the dogs would devour your bowels, the rest of your members the wolves.
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