I began to repent having meddled with men's work.
"Antony looked across at me from his galley.

I waved my hand to point out the peril, but instead of eagerly and lovingly answering the greeting, as of yore, he turned his back, and in a short time after the wildest uproar arose around me.

One ship became entangled with another, planks and poles shattered with a loud crash.

Shouts, the cries and moans of the combatants and the wounded, mingled with the thunder of the stones hurled by the catapults, and the sharp notes of the signals which sounded like calls for help.

Two soldiers, stricken by arrows, fell beside me.