The tender respect which he felt for the empress and the grumbling affection manifested for his niece Matidia had changed into a senile dependence upon these women, whose counsels, nevertheless, he resisted more and more.
Enperatrizari zion begirune xamurra, bere iloba Matidiari beti erakutsia zion laztantasun marmaratia, emakume haiekiko dependentzia senil bat bihurtuak zitzaizkion, haien kontseiluei, alabaina, gero eta jaramon gutxiago egiten bazien ere.