There are to be gathered out of the writings of Cicero and the younger Pliny (but little, in my opinion, resembling his uncle in his humours) infinite testimonies of a beyond measure ambitious nature; and amongst others, this for one, that they both, in the sight of all the world, solicit the historians of their time not to forget them in their memoirs;
Vina, nec hausta meri, sed data frustra bibunt Palo Meotides ibaiaren ahoan hain hormaldi garratzak dira, non Mitridatesen buruordeak etsaien kontra gudukatu eta irabazi zuen lehor berean, udan garaitu baitzuen itsas guduketa bat beraien aurka.