I could not have believed there had been so profound, senseless, and dead a degree of drunkenness had I not read in history that Attalus having, to put a notable affront upon him, invited to supper the same Pausanias, who upon the very same occasion afterwards killed Philip of Macedon, a king who by his excellent qualities gave sufficient testimony of his education in the house and company of Epaminondas, made him drink to such a pitch that he could after abandon his beauty, as of a hedge strumpet, to the muleteers and servants of the basest office in the house.
Ez nukeen hain mozkorraldi barren, hatsankatu eta pisuan sinetsiko, historietan hau irakurri ez banu: Atalok afaltzera gonbidaturik, laido nabarmen baten egiteko, gero gauza beragatik Filipo, Makedoniako errege-bere nolakotasun ederrez, Epaminondasen etxean eta lagungoan hartua zuen hazkundearen lekukotasuna ematen zuen errege-hil zuen Pausanias bera, hainbeste edanarazi zion non utzi ahal zien bere edertasuna, sentimendurik gabe, sasiko puta baten gorputza bezala, mandazainei eta bere etxeko morroi okaztagarri askori.