“The spray falls in a rain and from afar shrouds the vessel in a watery deluge.”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 665–666

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Effluit imber spumeus et magno puppem procul aequore vestit.

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Roman poet and writer 45–95

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