An orator bought me, when a child, and finding me a pretty and hopeful boy, bred me up, and when he died left me all his estate, which I have transported into this city of Athens, and here settled myself to the study of philosophy.
Elegile batek erosi ninduen gazterik, atsegina aurkitu baininduen, eta hiltzearekin bere ontasunak utzi dizkit, eta horiek Atenaseko hiri honetara ekarriz, filosofiari lotu natzaio.