and to Solon and others who have composed writings in the form of political discourses which they would term laws-to all of them we are to say that if their compositions are based on knowledge of the truth, and they can defend or prove them, when they are put to the test, by spoken arguments, which leave their writings poor in comparison of them, then they are to be called, not only poets, orators, legislators, but are worthy of a higher name, befitting the serious pursuit of their life.
egia nolakoa den jakinda, moldatu baldin badituzte horiek, eta lagundu ahal izanda, idatzi dituenak probatzera etortzen denean, eta hitz eginez idatziak eskasak direla erakusteko gai denean, horrelakoari ez zaio horietako inongo izenekin deitu behar, ardura izan zaizkion haien izenaz baizik.