Such I was, for I do not now make any account of myself, now that I am engaged in the avenues of old age, being already past forty: "Minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur aetas:"
Halakoa nintzen, zeren orain ez baitut neure burua neurtzen, zahartzarorako etorbideei loturik bainaiz, aspaldi berrogei urteak gainditurik: minutatim vires et robur adultum Frangit, et in partem pejorem liquitur ætas.