Quam docti jingunt magis quam nôrunt : "Which the learned rather feign than know." Timæus, being to instruct Socrates in what he knew of the gods, the world, and men, proposes to speak to him as a man to a man; and that it is sufficient, if his reasons are probable as those of another;
quam docti fingunt, magis quam norunt. aski baita, eta haren arrazoiak beste batenak bezain frogagarriak direla: arrazoi zehatzak ez baitira haren eskuan, ez eta ezein esku hilkorretan.