It was natural that emperors trained up in military toil, who had compassed the dethroning of a family immersed in pleasure, should adhere to virtue, which they had found so advantageous, and be afraid of voluptuousness, which they knew had proved so fatal to the family dethroned.
Izan ere, bidezkoa zen gerraren nekeetara ohitutako enperadoreek, delizietan itotako familia bat tronutik eraitsitakoan, hain baliagarri gertatu zitzaien bertutea gordetzea, eta hain kaltegarri agertu zitzaizkien atseginzaletasunen beldur izatea.