¹⁵ The sailors couldn’t turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up and let it run before the gale.

⁴ And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong.

The Shipwreck

²⁷ About midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, as we were being driven across the Sea of Adria,^[a] the sailors sensed land was near.