This man said that the interpreters of oracles did not make right conjecture of the whole, and he spoke as follows, saying that if these words that had been uttered referred really to the Athenians, he did not think it would have been so mildly expressed in the oracle, but rather thus, "Salamis, thou the merciless," instead of "Salamis, thou the divine," at least if its settlers were destined to perish round about it:
bertso haiek egiatan athenastarrei buruzkoak baziren-zioen-, orakulua ez zatekeen horren biguna, baizik eta "Oi Salamina zoritxarrekoa!" edo esango zuen, "Oi Salamina jainkotiarra!" esan beharrean, bizilagunak benetan ere hango uretan galtzekoak izatekotan;