the opulent Atticus, whose bank was financing my constructions (though not without profit therefrom), invited me to his gardens in Kephissia where he lived surrounded by a court of lecturers and writers then in fashion;
Atticus aberats handi-mandiak, nire edil-lanak finantzatuz etekin ederrik ateratzen ari zèn bankuaren jabeak, alegia, Kefisiako bere lorategietara gonbidatu ninduen, hantxe bizi baitzen modako zenbait bertsolari eta idazlez inguraturik;