In the midst of the studious life of Athens, where all pleasures, too, received their due, I regretted not Rome itself but the atmosphere of that place where the business of the world is continually done and undone, where are heard the pulleys and gears in the machine of governmental power.
Athenasko estudiante-bizimodu haren erdian, plazer guztiek nigan beren leku adinona betetzen bazuten ere, nik urrun-mina sentitzen nuen, hutsetsi egiten nuen, alegia, ez Erroma hiri bezala, baina bai bertan munduaren arazoak egin eta desegiten direneko erdigunea den Erroma, boterearen makinaren transmisio-txirrika eta gurpilen burrunbadaz betetako Erroma hura.