The Abbé du Bos, who would fain have the Visigoths subjected to taxes, quits the literal and spiritual sense of the law, and pretends, upon no other indeed than an imaginary foundation, that between the establishment of the Goths and this law, there had been an augmentation of taxes which related only to the Romans.
Dubos abadeak, bisigodoek zergak ordain zitzaten premia baitzuen, alde batera uzten du hitzez hitzezko eta espirituzko esanahia, eta imajinatzen du, imajinazio hutsa baita, godoen ezarpenaren eta lege haren artean erromatarrei bakarrik zegokien zerga-handitze bat izan zela.