And having tossed lead, they found twenty fathoms, and having gone a little farther, and having tossed lead again, they found fifteen fathoms.

But, we being exceedingly tempest-tossed, on the next day, they began to throw cargo overboard;

While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air,

When the fourteenth night came, and while we were being tossed around [helplessly] in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the crew suspected they were nearing land.