It was, on the contrary, rather serious that he could hardly stand wine, and took too much of it; and that his small court of increasingly mediocre subalterns, selected and manipulated by freedmen of dubious character, was so placed as to be present at all my conversations with him and could report them to my adversaries.
eta larria ere bazen otsein-multzo gero eta kaxkarrago hura, liberto badaezpadako batzuek aukeratu eta gobernatutakoa, enperadorearekin nituèn elkarrizketa guztietan presente egon beharra eta, noski, berauen berri ematera berehalaxe nire etsaiengana joatea.