However, if you are well advised, you will not be guided in your calculation of probabilities by what these persons tell you, but by what shrewd men and of large experience, as I esteem the Athenians to be, would be likely to do.
"Zentzuz ebatzi gura baduzue, gertagarria zer den hautemateko ez dituzue hartu behar oinarritzat horiek bala-bala zabaltzen dituzten zurrumurruak, baizik eta adimen eta eskarmentu handia duten lagunek, eta halakotzat dauzkat atenastarrak, egin dezaketena;