Nec incendio solum opera consumpta, sed forte eodem die vehementior ventus motum ex profundo mare illisit in molem, crebrisque fluctibus compages operis verberatae laxavere se, saxaque interfluens unda medium opus rupit.
Not only were the works consumed by the fire, but it chanced that on that day a more furious wind stirred up the sea from its very depths and dashed it against the causeway, and the joints of the structure, lashed by surge after surge, loosened, so that the sea, flowing in between the blocks, broke right through the work.
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