Hoc fit ubi interdum non quit vis incita venti rumpere quam coepit nubem, sed deprimit, ut sit in mare de caelo tamquam demissa columna, paulatim, quasi quid pugno bracchique superne coniectu trudatur et extendatur in undas; quam cum discidit, hinc prorumpitur in mare venti vis et fervorem mirum concinnat in undis; versabundus enim turbo descendit et illam deducit pariter lento cum corpore nubem; quam simul ac gravidam detrusit ad aequora ponti, ille in aquam subito totum se inmittit et omne excitat ingenti sonitu mare fervere cogens.
This happens when at times the force of the wind stirred up is unable to burst the cloud which it cannot attempts to burst, but depresses it so that it is like a column let down from the sky into the sea, little by little, as though something were being pushed and stretched out towards the waves by a fist and the thrust of an arm from above; and when the force of the wind has torn it asunder, it bursts forth from the cloud upon the sea and causes a wonderful boiling in the waves; for the whirlwind turns as it comes down, and brings down along with it that cloud of yielding body; but as soon as it has thrust down the teeming cloud upon the surface of the ocean, the wind suddenly plunges itself in full force into the water and stirs up the whole sea, compelling it boil with a huge noise.
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