Torquato Tasso, in the comparison he makes betwixt France and Italy, says that he has observed that our legs are generally smaller than those of the Italian gentlemen, and attributes the cause of it to our being continually on horseback; which is the very same cause from which Suetonius draws a quite opposite conclusion; for he says, on the contrary, that Germanicus had made his legs bigger by the continuation of the same exercise.
Torkuato Tasso, Frantzia eta Italiaren artean egiten duen konparaketan, badio ohartu dela aitorenseme italiarrek baino zango meharragoak ditugula, eta horren kausa ematen du zeren beti zaldiz baikabiltza;