The example of Cyrus will not do amiss in this place, to serve the kings of these times for a touchstone to know whether their gifts are well or ill bestowed, and to see how much better that emperor conferred them than they do, by which means they are reduced to borrow of unknown subjects, and rather of them whom they have wronged than of them on whom they have conferred their benefits, and so receive aids wherein there is nothing of gratuitous but the name.
Ez da hemen Ziroren eredua desegokia izanen, aro honetako erregeei frogatzat balioko baitie beren emaitza ongi ala gaizki erabilien ezagutzeko, eta ikusarazteko beraiek baino zeinen hobeki banatzen zituen enperadore hark. Horregatik hauek behartuak izan baitira beren maileguen egitera jende ezezagunen gainetik, eta maizago ere gaizki egin dietenen gainetik ongi egin dietenen gainetik baino; eta laguntzak erdiesten baitituzte izenik besterik doahinik ez dutenak.