for a few days I was even prey to the dread of being poisoned, that horrible fear which I had previously beheld in the eyes of the ailing Trajan, and which a ruler dare not avow, since it would seem grotesque so long as unjustified by the event.
printze bat ez da beldur hori aitortzera ausartzen, edonoren aurrean grotesko dirudikeelakoan, harik-eta, egiazki pozoatua gertatzean, arrazoizkoa zela garbiro erakusten den arte, jakina.