qui, simul affixo vicina in robora ferro sustulerant sublime ratem, miserabile visu, per subitum rursus laxatis arte catenis tanta praecipitem reddebant mole profundo, ut totam haurirent undae cum milite puppem.
As soon as it had fixed its iron point in the nearest ship and raised the vessel up into the air, then a piteous sight was seen: the cables were suddenly let go by machinery, and lowered their prey with such force and speed that the ship and her company were swallowed up whole by the sea.
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