Translation - pages 17-18

Talia iactanti stridens Aquilone procella velum adversa ferit, fluctusque as sidera tollit.

While he was shouting such words, a storm, whistling with the North wind, struck the sail full in front, and raised the waves to the stars.

Franguntur remi, tum prora avertit et undis dat latus, insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons.

The oars were broken, then he prow turned away and offered the side to the waves; a sheer mountain of water followed in a mass.

Hi summo in fluctu pendent; his unda dehiscens terram inter fluctus aperit, furit aestus harenis.

Some hung on the top of the wave, for others a yawning wave revealed the earth among the waves, while the seething sea raged within 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, dorsum immane mari summo)

(Rocks in the middle of waves which the Italians call the Altars, a huge ridge on the top of the sea)

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

Three the East wind pushed from the high seas onto shoals and sandbanks, wretched to behold,

Inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae.

Dashed them onto shallows and surrounded them with a mound of sand.