namque per occultum caeca vi turbinis olim impactum pelagus laceratae viscera terrae discidit et, medio perrumpens arva profundo, cum populis pariter convulsis transtulit urbes.
For long ago the  main, with the invisible force of a tornado, dashed itself unseen against the bowels of the land and tore it apart; then rushing over the fields in full flood, it uprooted whole cities with their inhabitants and carried them to a distance.
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