CXLII.

The Sea-Fight. Pugna Navalis.

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A _Sea-fight_ is terrible, when huge _Ships_, like _Castles_, run one upon another _Navale prœlium_ terribile est, quum ingentes _Naves_, veluti _Arces_, concurrunt with their _Beaks_, 1. or shatter one another with their _Ordnance_, 2. _Rostris_, 1. aut se invicem quassant _Tormentis_, 2. and so being bored thorow they drink in their own Destruction, and are _sunk_, 3. atque ita perforatæ, imbibunt perniciem suam & _submerguntur_, 3.

Or when they are set on fire and either by the firing of _Gun-powder_, 4. Aut quum igne corripiuntur, & vel ex incendio _pulveris tormentarii_, 4. men are blown up into the air, or are burnt in the midst of the waters, or else leaping into the Sea are drowned. homines ejiciuntur in ærem, vel exuruntur in mediis aquis, vel etiam desilientes in mare, suffocantur.

A _Ship_ that flieth away, 5. is overtaken by those that _pursue her_, 6. and is taken. _Navis_ fugitiva, 5. intercipitur ab _insequentibus_, 6. & capitur.