And as in the innermost recess of a wondrous cave bats flit about gibbering, when one has fallen from off the rock from the chain in which they cling to one another, so these went with him gibbering,
ὡς δ' ὅτε νυκτερίδες μυχῷ ἄντρου θεσπεσίοιο τρίζουσαι ποτέονται , ἐπεί κέ τις ἀποπέσῃσιν ὁρμαθοῦ ἐκ πέτρης , ἀνά τ' ἀλλήλῃσιν ἔχονται , ὣς αἱ τετριγυῖαι ἅμ' ἤϊσαν · [0]
ὡς δέ ὅτε νυκτερίς μυχός ἄντρον θεσπέσιος τρίζω ποτάομαι , ἐπεί ἄν τις ἀποπίπτω ὁρμαθός ἐκ πέτρα , ἀνά τε ἀλλήλων ἔχω , ὡς ὁ τρίζω ἅμα εἶμι ·