Why did not so noble a conquest fall under Alexander, or the ancient Greeks and Romans; and so great a revolution and mutation of so many empires and nations, fall into hands that would have gently levelled, rooted up, and made plain and smooth whatever was rough and savage amongst them, and that would have cherished and propagated the good seeds that nature had there produced; mixing not only with the culture of land and the ornament of cities, the arts of this part of the world, in what was necessary, but also the Greek and Roman virtues, with those that were original of the country?
Damu ez baita Alexandroren eskumenera edo greko eta erromatar zahar haien eskumenera halako konkista noblea gertatu, eta hainbat erresuma eta jenderen aldakuntza eta nahasmena, haietan basa zena eztiki leundu eta garbitu eta han naturak sortu zituen hazi onak erraztu eta ugaritu baitzituzketen, ez bakarrik lurren lantzeari eta hirien apainketari hemengo moldeak gehituz, beharrezkoak ziratekeen bezainbat, baina herriko jatorrizkoei gehituz ere bertute grekoak eta erromatarrak!