storm at sea
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
cruel winds · stormy gales · strong wind · the three days' storm · waves
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Hymn 33 To the Dioscuri
A maritime crisis of violent wind and waves that endangers sailors and ships.
When Leda had lain with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, she bare them beneath the peak of the great hill Taygetus, — children who are deliverers of men on earth and of swift-going ships when stormy gales rage over the ruthless sea.
Aeneid
Violent multi-day storm that leaves the Trojan fleet lost at sea.
Three days of blinding dark, three nights without a star, we roved the seas;
When from the deep the shores had faded far, and only sky and sea were round our way, full in the zenith hung a purple cloud, storm-laden, dark as night, and every wave grew black and angry, while perpetual gales came rolling o'er the main, and mountain-high the wreckful surges rose;