"To ourselves also long ago at the very first, when we saw that the Persians were being ranged opposite to you, it occurred to us to say these very things, which ye now bring forward before we have uttered them; but we feared lest these words might not be pleasing to you.
"Aspalditik geunden gu geu ere orain proposatzen diguzun gauza bera zuri esateko-persiarrak zuen aurrez aurre lerrokatzen zirela ikusi genuen une beretik-, baina beldur ginen halako proposamena zure gustukoa ez ote zen.