and as the bones are lifted at their joints by the contraction or relaxation of the muscles, I am able to bend my limbs, and this is why I am sitting here in a curved posture-that is what he would say, and he would have a similar explanation of my talking to you, which he would attribute to sound, and air, and hearing, and he would assign ten thousand other causes of the same sort, forgetting to mention the true cause, which is, that the Athenians have thought fit to condemn me, and accordingly I have thought it better and more right to remain here and undergo my sentence;
Eta zuekin hizketan aritzeaz ere horrelako beste kausak esango balitu ere, ahots, aire eta entzumenei eta horrelako beste mila gauzei erantzukizuna egotziz, benetako kausak esateaz arduratu gabe, alegia, atenastarrei ni kondenatzea hobeto iruditu zaienez, horregatik niri ere hobeto iruditu zaidala hemen eserita egotea, eta bidezkoago, hemen geldituz, agintzen duten zigorra jasatea.