They visit them often and take great pains to make their time pass off easily; but when any is taken with a torturing and lingering pain, so that there is no hope either of recovery or ease, the priests and magistrates come and exhort them, that, since they are now unable to go on with the business of life, are become a burden to themselves and to all about them, and they have really out-lived themselves, they should no longer nourish such a rooted distemper, but choose rather to die since they cannot live but in much misery;
Baina ez dute nehor hilarazten berak ez baldin badu nahi eta ez dizkiote ere nehori hartzen zituen artak kentzen. Bestela, bere buruaz beste egiten duena senatoreen eta apezen onarpenik gabe, hura ez dute nahi ez suan erre ez lurrean ehortzi; eta haren gorputza aurtikitzen dute ahalkegarri, ehorzketarik gabe, lohidoi batera. Hemezortzi urteak bete aintzin, ez dira emazteak ezkontzen;