The short and obscene sentence of Poseidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the taut cord touched by the finger accounts for the infinite miracle of sounds.
Poseidoniusen esalditxo lizunak,-ikusia dizut, bai, nola daukazun zeure eskola-koadernoan txit arduratsuki kopiatua-, maitasuna elkar-igurzten duten bi haragi-zatiren jokoan datzala dioen esaera trakets horrek, ez du inola ere amodioaren fenomenoa aditzera ematen, erhiek ferekaturiko soka-hariak soinuen mirari mugagabearen azalpenik eman ez dezakeen bezala.