hunc ubi vix multa maestum cognovit in umbra, sic prior adloquitur: quis te, Palinure, deorum eripuit nobis medioque sub aequore mersit? dic age.
Him, when at last amid the deep gloom he knew the sorrowful form, he first accosts thus: What god, Palinurus, tore you from us and plunged you beneath the open ocean? O tell me!