Vibius Virrius, despairing of the safety of his city besieged by the Romans and of their mercy, in the last deliberation of his city's senate, after many arguments conducing to that end, concluded that the most noble means to escape fortune was by their own hands:
Vibio Viriok, erromatarrek setiatu zioten hiriaren salbatzeaz eta haien urrikariaz etsiturik, bere senatuaren azken deliberamenduan, helburu horretarako erabili argudio askoren ondotik, ondoriatu zuen ederrena zela zoritik ihes egitea beren eskuen bidez.