Not that I am literally speaking of ourselves, but I was carried away-meaning to say that this was the way in which (not we but) the ancients formed language, and what they put together we must take to pieces in like manner, if we are to attain a scientific view of the whole subject, and we must see whether the primary, and also whether the secondary elements are rightly given or not, for if they are not, the composition of them, my dear Hermogenes, will be a sorry piece of work, and in the wrong direction.
Guk, horiek guztiak artearen arabera aztertzen jakingo badugu, modu horretan bereizi ondoren, jatorrizko izenak eta ondorengoak behar den eran osatuta dauden ala ez ikusi behar dugu. Beste prozedura bat jarraitzea okerra litzateke eta metodoaren aurkakoa, Hermogenes maitea.