But when you added, shortly afterwards, that the rhetorician might make a bad use of rhetoric I noted with surprise the inconsistency into which you had fallen; and I said, that if you thought, as I did, that there was a gain in being refuted, there would be an advantage in going on with the question, but if not, I would leave off.
Baina geroxeago hizlariak erretorika bidegabe erabil lezakeela esan duzunez, harritu egin naiz, eta esandakoek ezin zutela bat etorri uste nuenez, arrazoi hura esan nuen, alegia zuk ere nik bezala ezeztatua izatea irabazia zela uste bazenuen, merezi zuela elkarrizketan jardutea, bestela ez.