Now there is lying near it an island named Kythera, about which Chilon, who was a very wise man among us, said that it would be a greater gain for the Spartans that it should be sunk under the sea than that it should remain above it; for he always anticipated that something would happen from it of such a kind as I am now setting forth to thee:
Bada hango kostatik hurbil uharte bat, Zythera izenekoa, zeini buruz Khilonek-gure herrian izan den pertsonaiarik jakintsuenetako bat-zera esan baitzuen: