For when he had sent to the several Oracles his messengers to consult the gods, keeping well in mind the appointed day he contrived the following device,-he thought of something which it would be impossible to discover or to conceive of, and cutting up a tortoise and a lamb he boiled them together himself in a caldron of bronze, laying a cover of bronze over them.
Izan ere, galdetzaileak igarlekuetara bidali zituen orduko, izendaturiko eguna zaindu eta era honetan moldatu zituen gauzak. Asmatu eta sumatu ezinezkoak pentsatuz, dortoka eta bildotsa zatikatu eta elkarrekin egosten jarri zituen tupikizko pazi batean, tupikizko tapa gaineratuz.