Note 14 — AN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF THE MARINE. (continued 4)

Ut primum rostris crepuerunt obvia rostra,

In puppim rediere rates, emissaque tela

Aera texerant, vacuumque cadentia pontum. Lucan.

Which we may thus translate:

The beaks encounter with a thundering sound,

Then reeling, from the mutual shock rebound.

The javelins fly! an iron tempest sweeps

The darken’d air, and covers all the deeps!