At Rome I preferred to use our enduring brick; it returns but slowly to the earth, from which it comes, and its imperceptible settling and crumbling leave a mountainous mass even when the edifice has ceased to be visibly what it was built for, a fortress, a circus, or a tomb.
Erroman, batik-bat, betiko adreilua erabiltzen nuen material gisa, sortua den lurrera astiro-astiro itzultzen den adreilua, hain baita ezarikoa, ia ohartezina, gai honen gainbeherapena eta higadura non halakoez egindako etxeak, gotorleku, zirko edo hilobi izateari utzi ondoren ere, gutxienez mendi bat izaten, behinik behin, jarraitu egiten baitu.