Interea Aeneas socios de puppibus altis
pontibus exponit. Multi servare recursus
languentis pelagi et brevibus se credere saltu,
290per remos alii. Speculatus litora Tarchon,
qua vada non sperat nec fracta remurmurat unda,
sed mare inoffensum crescenti adlabitur aestu,
advertit subito proram sociosque precatur:
“Nunc, o lecta manus, validis incumbite remis;
295tollite, ferte rates; inimicam findite rostris
hanc terram, sulcumque sibi premat ipsa carina.
Frangere nec tali puppim statione recuso
arrepta tellure semel.” Quae talia postquam
effatus Tarchon, socii consurgere tonsis
300spumantisque rates arvis inferre Latinis,
donec rostra tenent siccum et sedere carinae
omnes innocuae, sed non puppis tua, Tarchon.
Namque inflicta vadis dorso dum pendet iniquo,
anceps sustentata diu fluctusque fatigat,
305solvitur atque viros mediis exponit in undis
fragmina remorum quos et fluitantia transtra
impediunt, retrahitque pedem simul unda relabens.
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