A Storm at Sea (2)

Question 0

Hi pendent summo fluctu.

Answer 0

Some men hung on the top of the wave.

Question 1

Remi fraguntur tum prora avertit dat latus undis mons aquae insequitur praeruptus cumulo.

Answer 1

The oar broke and the prow turned and gave the side to the waves, a mountain of water followed, steep in mass.

Question 2

Unda dehiscens aperit terram inter fluctus his aestus furit harenis.

Answer 2

The wave, gaping open, laid the sea bed bare between the waves to some, the current seethed with sand.

Question 3

Abreptas tres torquet saxa latentia

Answer 3

Having snatched three, Notus flung them onto rocks lying hidden

Question 4

(vocant saxa quae mediis fluctibus Aras immane dorsum summo mari)

Answer 4

(the Italians call the rocks which are in the middle of the waves, the Altars, a dangerous ridge in the middle of the sea)

Question 5

urget tres alto brevia miserabile visu inlidit vadis cingit aggere harenae.

Answer 5

Eurus drove three from the open sea into the shallows and the Syrtes, a miserable sight to see and dashed them against the shallow water and surrounded them with a wall of sand.

Question 6

Ingens pontus ferit unam quae vehebat fidum puppim a vertice ante oculus ipsius.

Answer 6

A huge wave struck one, which was carrying the Lycians and faithful Orontes, in the stern from above, before the eyes of Aenas himself.

Question 7

Magister excutitur pronus volvitur caput fluctus torquet illam ter ibidem agens circum rapidus vertex vorat aequore.

Answer 7

The helmsman was shaken out face down and rolled onto his head, but the wave twisted the ship three times in the same place, driving it around and a swift whirlpool swallowed it with the surface of the sea.

Question 8

Rari nantes virum arma tabulae Troia gaza apparent per undas vasto gurgite.

Answer 8

Scattered swimmers and men’s weapons and planks and Trojan treasures appeared through the waves in the watery waste.

Question 9

Hiems vicit iam validam fortis et qua vectus et qua grandaevus.

Answer 9

The storm overcame now the sturdy ship of Illioneus, now the ship of brave Achates, and both the ship in which Abas was carried, and in which aged Aletes.

Question 10

Omnes accipiunt inimicum imbrem laxis compagibus laterum fatiscunt rimis.

Answer 10

All received hateful water in the loose joints of their sides and gaped open with cracks.