Translation - pages 19-20

The huge sea, falling from its highest point, struck one ship on the stern,

Which was carrying the Lycians and faithful Orontes, before the very eyes of Aeneas:

The helmsman is shaken off and as he bends forward is rolled headlong,

But the ship, a wave whirls round three times on the same spot, driving it around, and a devouring whirlpool swallows it up in the sea.

Far apart men become visible swimming in the immense whirlpool, along with the arms of men, planks and Trojan treasure throughout the waves.

Now the storm overcame Ileoneus’ strong ship, now brave Achates’,

And both the ship in which Abas was carried and the one in which Aletes, advanced in years;

When the joints of the sides had been loosened, all the ships take in the hostile water and gape with cracks.