Aenied 1 lines 102-112

As he hurled such [words],

talia iactanti

a screeching squall from the North wind

stridens Aquilone procella

strikes the sail full-on,

velum adversa ferit,

and lifts the waves to the stars.

fluctusque ad sidera tollit.

The oars are broken,

franguntur remi;

then the prow turns round

tum prora avertit,

and gives its side to the waves;

et undis dat latus;

There follows in a heap

insequitur cumulo

a sheer mountain of water.

praeruptus aquae mons.

These hang on top of a wave;

hi summo in fluctu pendent;

to these the gaping surge

his unda dehiscens

opens up ground amid the waves;

terram inter fluctus aperit;

the swell rages on the sands.

furit aestus harenis.

The South wind, having snatched away three ships,

tres Notus abreptas

hurls them onto lurking rocks,

in saxa latentia torquet

(rocks in the middle of the waves, which the Italians call "the Altars",

(saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus aras

an enormous spine on the surface of the sea);

dorsum immane mari summo);

the East wind drives three ships from the deep

tres Eurus ab alto ... urget

into the shallows and the sandbanks,

in brevia et syrtes

something pitiable to see,

miserabile visu,

and strikes them against the shallows

inliditque vadis

and rings them in a mound of sand.

atque aggere cingit harenae.