Book 5.201-212
Sergestus moves too near the turning point. His ship hits the reef.
Attulit ipse viris optatum casus honorem.
201
Namque furens animi dum proram ad saxa suburguet
202
interior, spatioque subit Sergestus iniquo,
203
infelix saxis in procurrentibus haesit.
204
Concussae cautes, et acuto in murice remi
205
obnixi crepuere, inlisaque prora pependit.
206
Consurgunt nautae et magno clamore morantur,
207
ferratasque trudes et acuta cuspide contos
208
expediunt, fractosque legunt in gurgite remos.
209
At laetus Mnestheus successuque acrior ipso
210
agmine remorum celeri ventisque vocatis
211
prona petit maria et pelago decurrit aperto.
212