Just as the bees, now circling round him, threatening him and distracting his attention, deprived him of complete physical calm and forced him to shrink to avoid them, so the cares that had beset him from the moment he got into the trap had deprived him of spiritual freedom; but that continued only so long as they surrounded him.
Proprio come le api che adesso gli volteggiavano intorno, lo minacciavano e lo distraevano, gli toglievano la piena calma fisica, lo obbligavano a contrarsi per sfuggirle, proprio così le preoccupazioni, avvolgendolo, dal momento in cui era salito sul calesse, lo avevano privato della libertà dell’anima; ma ciò era durato soltanto finché vi era rimasto in mezzo.