and, that his chariots neither performed anything to purpose in the race, and that the ship which brought back his people failed of making Sicily, and was by the tempest driven and wrecked upon the coast of Tarentum, they certainly believed was through the anger of the gods, incensed, as they themselves were, against the paltry Poem; and even the mariners who escaped from the wreck seconded this opinion of the people:
Eta bere orgek ez zutela balioko deusik egin lasterraldian, eta bere jendeak zeramatzan ontziak Sizilia huts egin eta erauntsiak Tarentoko ertzaren aurka bulkatua eta hautsia izan zela, egiatzat zeukan Jainkoen haserraldia zela, bera bezala, poema txar haren kontra sumindurik. Ontzi-ondoratzetik itzuri itsasgizonak ere jende haren aburua bermatuz zihoazen.