I dare say, if in a free state, like that of Lacedæmon, where the citizens were continually tormented by odd and subtle laws, and in which there was but one family, that of the republic, if it had been there established that the husbands might change their wives every year, it would have produced an innumerable people.
Ausartuko naiz esatera: Lazedemoniako errepublika batean bezala, non hiritarrak etengabe lege berezi eta sotilek lotzen zituzten, eta, non Errepublika gertatzen zen familia bakarra, erabakiko balitz senarrek urte oroz anderez alda lezaten, jendetza kontaezina lukeen herria gertatuko litzateke.