The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd edition

by W. Y. Sellar

Tenebrae conduplicantur, noctisque et nimbum occaecat nigror,

Flamma inter nubes coruscat, caelum tonitru contremit,

Grando mista imbri largifico subita praecipitans cadit,

Undique omnes venti erumpunt, saevi existunt turbines,

Fervit aestu pelagus[²⁸].

There are also, in the same style, these rough and graphic lines, exemplifying the impetuous force which the older Roman poets impart to their descriptions by the figure of speech called 'asyndeton,'—

Armamentum stridor, flictus navium,

Strepitus fremitus clamor tonitruum et rudentum sibilus[²⁹].

Virgil must have had this passage in his mind when he wrote the line—

Insequitur clamorque virum, stridorque rudentum.