Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin.
Hemen, orduan, herri barbaro eta ezjakin batek aurkezten digun liburu bat dugu aurrean, oraindik barbaroagoak ziren garai batean idatzia, eta, seguru asko, kontatzen dituen gertakariak baino askoz geroago, ezein testigantza bateratsuk berretsi gabea, eta bere sorreraz edozein naziok eman ohi dituen elazaharrezko kondairen antz-antzekoa.