I follow not the opinion of the Pythagorean sect, "that men take up a new soul when they repair to the images of the gods to receive their oracles," unless he mean that it must needs be extrinsic, new, and lent for the time; our own showing so little sign of purification and cleanness, fit for such an office.
Ez naiz Pitagorasen alderdikoa, "gizonek arima berri bat hartzen dutela jainkoen irudietara hurbiltzen direnean haien orakuluen biltzeko". Non ez zuen esan nahi arrotza, berria eta denboraz mailegatua izan behar zela, beraiena ospamen horri dagokion hain garbi-ezaugarri guti erakutsiz.