He acknowledges that these practitioners existed in Athens (and thus presumably in other Greek cities), and they had to be reckoned with and controlled by laws; but one should not be afraid of them, their powers are real, but they themselves represent a rather low order of humanity.
他承認這些從事巫術的人士存在於雅典（並且因此可能也存在於其他希臘城邦境內），還有他們是不可以被忽視的一群人以及須藉由法律來管制著；不過一般的人們不應該害怕他們，雖然他們的力量是實實在在的，但是他們自己本身就代表了一種相當低級的人性。