As the philosopher Chrysippus' maid said of her master, that he was only drunk in his legs, for it was his custom to be always kicking them about in what place soever he sat; and she said it when, the wine having made all his companions drunk, he found no alteration in himself at all; it may have been said of me from my infancy, that I had either folly or quicksilver in my feet, so much stirring and unsettledness there is in them, wherever they are placed.
Krisipo filosofoaren neskameak bere nagusiaz solik zangoetan zegoela mozkorturik esan bezala (zeren zernahi lekutan bazegoen ere haiei eragiteko ohitura baitzuen, eta neskameak esaten zion orduan ardoak besteei eragiten ziela baina berak deus ere ez zuela somatzen), nitaz ere esan ahal da nire haurtzarodanik oinetan zoramena neukala, edo zilarbizia, hain mugimendu eta iraupenik eza baita ezartzen ditudan leku guztietan.