[and] whom we made the target of our derision? Or is it that [they are here, and] our eyes have missed them?"

"Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"

Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them?

Did we (only) take them in scorn, or do our eyes miss them?

Is it [because] we took them in ridicule, or has [our] vision turned away from them?"