what else however thinkest thou the men of the islands desire and have been praying for ever since the time they heard that thou wert about to build ships against them, than that they might catch the Lydians upon the sea, so as to take vengeance upon thee for the Hellenes who dwell upon the mainland, whom thou dost hold enslaved?" Croesus, they say, was greatly pleased with this conclusion, and obeying his suggestion, for he judged him to speak suitably, he stopped his building of ships;
Baina irlatarrek zer besterik desiratzen dutela uste duzu, beren aurka gerrauntziak eraiki behar dituzula jakin bezain azkar, morrontzapean dituzun lurbarruko biztanle heleniarrengatik zutaz mendeka daitezen, otoika lydiarrak itsasoan harrapatzea baino?".