and that these words, "as 'tis said," are not put in this place to that effect, is easy to be seen, because he elsewhere relates to us, upon this subject, of the patience of the Lacedaemonian children, examples happening in his time, more unlikely to prevail upon our faith; as what Cicero has also testified before him, as having, as he says, been upon the spot: that even to their times there were children found who, in the trial of patience they were put to before the altar of Diana, suffered themselves to be there whipped till the blood ran down all over their bodies, not only without crying out, but without so much as a groan, and some till they there voluntarily lost their lives:
oraino beren aroan haurrak aurkitzen zirela, Dianaren aldarearen aurrean entseiatzen zitzaien jasankortasun froga hartan, azotaturik izatea odola orotarik zerien arte pairatzen zutenak, ez bakarrik oihukatu gabe, baina kexatu gabe ere, eta batzuk bizia gogotik utzi arte.