And therefore it fares with them as, according to the fiction of Plato, happens to those that being cooped up in a cave stand gaping with admiration at the shadows of things; and that fugitive who, having broke from them and returning to them again, told them he had seen things truly as they were, and that they were the most mistaken in believing there was nothing but pitiful shadows.
Jakitun gertatu den hau, egia esan, errukitu egiten da lagunekin eta errakuntza hain handia duten haitzulokideen sanotasunik eza deitoratzen du; eta hauek, aldiz, euren aldetik, irri eta barre egiten diote eldarniatzen ari dela-eta, eta begien aurretik botatzen dute. Modu berean, gizakien gehiengoak gorputzezko gauzak miresten ditu gehien eta ia-ia, horiexek baino ez direla existitzen pentsatzen du.