For what is more foolish, say they, than for a suppliant suitor to flatter the people, to buy their favor with gifts, to court the applauses of so many fools, to please himself with their acclamations, to be carried on the people's shoulders as in triumph, and have a brazen statue in the marketplace?
jana nahiz dirua bermatuz jendearen borondatea erosi nahiean eta inozoen txaloen atzetik joan eta berauen oihuekin pozten dena, edo ikur gisa airean eramatea maite duena jendearen ikuskizun bihurturik, edo foroan brontzezko irudia ordezkotzat tente daukana?