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Evening had barely closed in when a heavy rain - it was about
midsummer - began to fall, which continued the whole night, with
terrible thunderings and lightnings from Mount Pelion: the bodies of
the slain and the broken pieces of the damaged ships were drifted in the
direction of Aphetae, and floated about the prows of the vessels
there, disturbing the action of the oars. The barbarians, hearing
the storm, were greatly dismayed, expecting certainly to perish, as
they had fallen into such a multitude of misfortunes. For before they
were well recovered from the tempest and the wreck of their vessels off
Mount Pelion, they had been surprised by a sea-fight which had taxed
all their strength, and now the sea-fight was scarcely over when they
were exposed to floods of rain, and the rush of swollen streams into
the sea, and violent thunderings.
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