atque hos, ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis, cauda in speluncam tractos versisque viarum indiciis raptor saxo occultabat opaco; quaerenti nulla ad speluncam signa ferebant.
And that there might be no tracks pointing forward, the rustler dragged them by the tail into his cave, and, with the signs of their course thus turned backwards, the thief hid them in the rocky darkness: anyone who sought them could find no marks leading to the cave.