³⁰ But when the sailors tried to escape from the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea on the pretext of putting out anchors from the bow,^(A)

¹⁶ By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda^[a] we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.

³² Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.