In the seventh chapter he tells how, crowned with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him and the flute-player mocked the swinger of the censer;
Zazpigarren kapituluan hala esaten du, nola behin tximistak jo ez zezan, erramuzko koroe bat jantzita, Tiberio bezala, Capri-ko lorategi batean eseri zen, Elefantis-en liburu lotsagarriak irakurtzen, ipotxak eta paumak horroaren harroz aretuta bere inguruan zebiltzan bitartean, eta flauta joleak intzentsu ontziaren doinuari irri egiten ziola;