which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest into the Syrtis shoals they fall, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.
And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the bands of the rudders, and raising the foresail to the blowing wind, they headed to the beach.
And having fallen on a place with an inlet between two seas, they drove the vessel. And indeed the prow having stuck firmly, it remained. But the stern was broken by the violence of the waves.