And a certain Stoic, showing more honesty than those disputants, who, in order to quarrel with Epicurus, and to throw the game into their hands, make him say what he never thought, putting a wrong construction upon his words, clothing his sentences, by the strict rules of grammar, with another meaning, and a different opinion from that which they knew he entertained in his mind and in his morals, the Stoic, I say, declared that he abandoned the Epicurean sect, upon this among other considerations, that he thought their road too lofty and inaccessible;
eta estoiko batek, eztabaidari horiek baino fede hobea erakutsiz, Epikurori oldartzeko eta josteta onaren egiteko, esanarazten baitiote gogoan sekula izan ez zuena, haren hitzak makurki moldatuz, gramatikaren arabera bere mintzairaren beste zentzu bat argudiatuz eta haren gogoan eta ohituretan zegoela zekitenaz beste sinesmen ezberdin bat, badio epikuroar izatea utzi duela gogoeta honengatik, besteak beste: haien bidea gora eta malkerregia aurkitzen duelako: