namque inflicta vadis, dorso dum pendet iniquo anceps sustentata diu fluctusque fatigat, solvitur atque viros mediis exponit in undis, fragmina remorum quos et fluitantia transtra impediunt retrahitque pedes simul unda relabens.
for while, dashing against the shallows, she hangs upon an uneven ridge, long poised in doubtful balance, and wearies the waves, she breaks upand plunges her crew among the billows. Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, while the ebbing wave sucks back their feet.