Aeneid lines 87-123

Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum

There follows both the shouting of men and the creaking of ropes

Eripiunt subito nubes caelumque diemque Teucrorum ex oculis

Suddenly, the clouds snatch away both sky and day from the eyes of the Trojans

Ponto nox incubat atra

Black night falls upon the sea

Intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether

The heavens thundered, the upper air flashes with abundant fires

Praesentemque viris intentant omnia mortem

And everything threatens instant death for the men

Extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra

Immediately Aeneas' limbs are loosened with cold

Ingemit et duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas

He groans, and, stretching [out] both palms towards the stars

Talia voce refert

He says such things aloud

O terque quaterque beati

Oh three times and four times blessed [are those]

Quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis contigit oppetere

To whom it was permitted to die before the faces of their fathers, under the high walls of Troy

O Danaum fortissime gentis Tydide

Oh son of Tydeus, bravest of the race of Greeks

Mene Iliacis occumbere campis non potuisse tuaque animam hanc effundere dextra

Was it [my fate] not to have been able to fall on the plains of Troy, and to pour out this soul at your right hand

Saevus ubi Aeacidae telo iacet Hector

Where fierce Hector lies [killed] by the spear of Achilles

Ubi ingens Sarpedon

Where mighty Sarpedon [lies]

Ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit

Where the Simois, having seized so many shields of heroes, rolls [them] and their helmets and strong bodies beneath its waves

Talia iactanti stridens Aquilone procella

While he was hurling such [words], a storm, whistling with the North wind

Velum adversa ferit

Struck the sail head-on

Fluctusque ad sidera tollit

And raised the waves to the stars

Franguntur remi

The oars were broken

Tum prora avertit et undis dat latus

Then the prow turned away and gave its side to the waves

Insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons

A steep mountain of water followed in a mass

Hi summo in fluctu pendent

Some hung on the top of the wave

His unda dehiscens terram inter fluctus aperit

For others a yawning wave revealed the earth among the waves

Furit aestus harenis

[While] the seething sea raged with the sands

Tres Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet

The South wind, having snatched three [ships], hurled them onto hidden rocks

Saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus Aras

Rocks in the middle of the waves which the Italians call the Altars

Dorsum immane mari summo

A huge ridge on top of the sea

Tres Eurus ab alto in brevia et syrtes urget, miserabile visu

Three the East wind pushed from the deep [sea] onto shoals and sandbanks, a piteous sight

Inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae

And dashed [them] onto the shallows and surrounded [them] with a mountain of sand

Unam, quae Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten

One [ship], which was carrying the Lycians and faithful Orontes

Ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus in puppim ferit

A huge sea, [falling] from its highest point struck on the stern, before the eyes of [Aeneas] himself

Excutitur pronusque magister volvitur in caput

The helmsman is shaken out and is whirled headlong on his head

Ast illam ter fluctus ibidem torquet agens circum

But as for the ship, a wave twists it three times on the same spot, driving it around

Et rapidus vorat aequore vortex

And a rapid whirlpool swallows it in the sea

Apparent rari nante in gurgite vasto

Scattered [people] swimming appear in the vast whirlpool

Arma virum tabulaeque et Troia gaza per undas

[Along with] the weapons of men, and planks, and Trojan treasure among the waves

Iam validam Ilonei navem

Now the strong ship of Ilonius

Iam fortis Achatae

Now [the ship] of brave Achates

Et qua vectus Abas

And [the one] by which Abas was carried

Et qua grandaevus Aletes

And [the one] by which aged Aletes [was carried]

Vicit hiems

Were conquered by the storm

Laxis laterum compagibus

With the joints having been loosened

Omnes accipiunt inimicum imbrem

They all take in the hostile water

Rimisque fatiscunt

And gape with cracks