It is certain that in those first times, when our religion began to gain authority with the laws, zeal armed many against all sorts of pagan books, by which the learned suffered an exceeding great loss, a disorder that I conceive to have done more prejudice to letters than all the flames of the barbarians.
Egia da gure erlijioa legez manu-indarraren hartzen hasi zen lehen aro haietan, haien lehiak asko armatu zituela liburu pagano-mota guztien kontra, nondik letretako jendeek jasaten baitute galtze ikaragarri bat.