they made it their business to recommend not their speaking, but their doing. And could the perfection of eloquence have added a lustre suitable to a great personage, certainly Scipio and Laelius had never resigned the honour of their comedies, with all the luxuriances and elegances of the Latin tongue, to an African slave;
halaber, ez zen eltzerik, platerik ez sukaltresnarik bi aldiz zerbitzatua izan zitzaionik.