In the other case, what city, think you, would not prepare better than is now done, and hold out to the last against its besiegers, if it is all one whether it surrender late or soon? And how can it be otherwise than hurtful to us to be put to the expense of a siege, because surrender is out of the question;
ez genukeen onartuko zeuek ez zinateketen beste ezein epaileren aurrera aurkeztea, orain gauden moduan, judizioa horrelaxe izango zela inpartzialagoa uste genuelako.