"Tunc longe sale saxa sonant, tunc et freta ventis Incipiunt agitata tumescere: littore fluctus Illidunt rauco."

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While the hoarse ocean beats the sounding shore, Dashed from the strand, the flying waters roar. — Book III, line 388. Compare: — But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Part II, line 168