In later years I came to prefer the roughness of Ennius, so close to the sacred origins of our race, or Lucretius' bitter wisdom; or to Homer's noble ease the homely parsimony of Hesiod.
Geroztik, atseginago izan dut Ennio baten bortiztasuna, gure arrazaren jatorri sagaratuetatik hain hurbil dagoena, edo Lukrezio baten mingostasun jakintsua, edota, Homeroren etorri oparoa baino areago, Hesiodo baten parsimonia apala.