Yet thus much I may be allowed to say in my own vindication, that I artfully eluded many of his questions, and gave to every point a more favourable turn, by many degrees, than the strictness of truth would allow. For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis, with so much justice, recommends to an historian:
Zeren eta, nik beti izan baitut neure sorterriarekiko, Dionysius Halicarnassensis-ek historialariari oso zuzen gomendatzen dion alderdikeria laudagarri hura.