Amores (16 BCE) by Ovid

 

pascitur in vivis Livor; post fata quiescit,
    cum suus ex merito quemque tuetur honos:
ergo etiam cum me supremus adederit ignis,
    vivam, parsque mei multa superstes erit.

Envy feasts on the living; after death it is silent,
    When each man’s fame protects him as he deserves:
So, even when the final flame has consumed me,
    I shall live, and a considerable part of me will survive.