Regressus in Galliam, legiones in hiberna dimisit, ac sexcentas naves utriusque commodi fieri imperavit: quibus iterum in Brittaniam primo vere transvectus, dum ipse in hostem cum exercitu pergit, naves in anchoris stantes, tempestate correptae, vel conlisae inter se, vel arenis inlisae ac dissolutae sunt: ex quibus quadraginta perierunt, ceterae cum magna difficultate reparatae sunt.
And so for that season he was forced to send his men into winter quarters, and gave command for 600 ships of both services to be built: with the which he sailed over again into Britain in the early spring: where after he had arrived and was now marching towards his enemy with his main host, his ships riding at the anchor were with a violent storm rent and cast either one upon the other, either upon the quicksands, and there broken in pieces: in such sort that 40 of them were lost out of hand, and the rest with much ado repaired.
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