Traicere amnem cum ceteris copiis in regionem insulae de qua ante dictum est parabat, averso hoste in eos, qui cum Ptolomaeo inferiorem obsederant ripam, cum procella imbrem  vix sub tectis tolerabilem effundit.
He was preparing to cross the river with the rest of his forces to the shore near the island of which mention was made before, having diverted the attention of the enemy against those who, with Ptolemy, had occupied a part of the bank farther down the river, when a tempest poured out rain which was scarcely to be endured by people  under cover.
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