Do the rhetoricians appear to you always to aim at what is best, and do they seek to improve the citizens by their speeches, or are they too, like the rest of mankind, bent upon giving them pleasure, forgetting the public good in the thought of their own interest, playing with the people as with children, and trying to amuse them, but never considering whether they are better or worse for this?
Zure ustez hizlariek beti onenari begira hitz egiten dute, beren hitzaldien bidez hiritarrak ahalik eta onenak bihur daitezen helburu daukatela, ala horiek ere hiritarrei atsegin ematera jotzen dute eta beren interesagatik interes komunaz arduratu gabe, herriekin umeekin bezala hitz egiten dute, bakarrik atsegin ematen saiatuz, axolarik gabe modu horretan hobeak ala okerragoak izango diren?