Aeneid lines 1.102-123

For (Aeneas) saying such things, the storm, shrieking with the Aquilo, strikes the sail crossways, and lifts the waves to the stars. Oars break, then prows turn and give side to the waves, a steep mountain of water follows the mass. These hang at the top of the wave; the cleaving wave opens the earth between the waves for them, the boiling surge rages upon the sands. Notus twists three snatched (ships) onto hidden rocks (the Italians call the rocks which are in the middle of the waves the Aras [Altars], a huge ridge on the surface of the sea), the Eurus drives three from the sea into the shallows and the reefs, wretched to see, and dashes them on the shoals and encircles (them) with a mound of sand. One, which bore the Lycians and faithful Orontes, the huge sea from the summit strikes on the stern before the eyes of (Aeneas) himself: the pilot is shaken off and rolls headlong, leaning forward, but in the same place three times a wave twists that (ship), driving (it) around and swift whirlpool swallows (it) in the sea. Scattered men, swimming in the vast abyss, appear through the waves, arms of men and tablets and Trojan treasure. Now the storm defeated the stout ship of Ilioneus, now of brave Achates, and (the one) on which Abas was carried, and on which aged Aletes; all receive hostile rain by the open joints of their sides and they gape with cracks.