But as want of money proved the weakness of earlier expeditions, so from the same cause even the one in question, more famous than its predecessors, may be pronounced on the evidence of what it effected to have been inferior to its renown and to the current opinion about it formed under the tuition of the poets.
Halere, baliabide eskasia horregatik, kanpaina haren aurrekoak ez ezik, gure antzinakoen egitaundi entzutetsuok ere apalak izan ziren, poetei esker hartu duten ospearekin eta gaur egun haietaz mantentzen den kondairarekin alderatuz.