So spoke he, and they, seized with fear of the rebuke of their father, brought forth the light-running waggon drawn of mules, fair and newly-wrought, and bound upon it the wicker box; and down from its peg they took the mule-yoke, a box-wood yoke with a knob thereon, well-fitted with guiding-rings;
ὣς ἔφαθ' , οἳ δ' ἄρα πατρὸς ὑποδείσαντες ὁμοκλὴν ἐκ μὲν ἄμαξαν ἄειραν ἐΰτροχον ἡμιονείην καλὴν πρωτοπαγέα , πείρινθα δὲ δῆσαν ἐπ' αὐτῆς , κὰδ δ' ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον ἡμιόνειον πύξινον ὀμφαλόεν εὖ οἰήκεσσιν ἀρηρός ·
ὡς φημί , ὁ δέ ἄρα πατήρ ὑποδείδω ὁμοκλή ἐκ μέν ἄμαξα ἀείρω εὔτροχος ἡμιόνειος καλός πρωτοπαγής , πείρινς δέ δέω ἐπί αὐτός , κατά δέ ἀπό πάσσαλος ζυγόν αἱρέω ἡμιόνειος πύξινος ὀμφαλόεις εὖ οἴαξ ἀραρίσκω ·