To speak of him with malignity is far from my intention, and to relate the truth is painful. He began the world in the train of a quaestor, whom he attended into Africa. In that station, while, to avoid the intense heat of the mid-day sun, he was sitting under a portico in the city of Adrumetum, the form of a woman, large beyond the proportions of the human shape, appeared before him.
Nerabezaroa Afrika egokitu zitzaion kuestore baten segizioan igaro ondoren, Adrumeto hirian zegoela eta, eguerdian bera bakarrik, karrerape hutsetan pasioan zebilela, giza itxuraz haragoko emakume bat agertu zitzaion eta ahots bat entzun zuen: