but an occasion of making the expedient presenting itself, when old age or diseases bring them to the brink of the grave, the terror of death, by the horror of that future condition, inspires them with a new belief!" And by reason that such impressions render them timorous, he forbids in his Laws all such threatening doctrines, and all persuasion that anything of ill can befall a man from the gods, excepting for his great good when they happen to him, and for a medicinal effect.
Eta halako hunkimenduek kuraiak beldurti bilakatzen baititu, debekatzen ditu bere legeetan halako mehatxuen irakaskuntza guztiak, eta jainkoengandik gizonei inolako gaitzik datorkiekeelako sinesmena, non ez den hauen onik handienerako, behar denean, ondorio sendagarri batez.