Three times I was beaten with a rod. ¹  Once I received a stoning. ²  Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

adrift ¹  among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power. ² 

“Man, born of woman, ¹  lives but a few days, ²  and they are full of trouble. ³ 

Then the soldiers cut the ropes ¹  of the ship’s boat and let it drift away. ² 

since he is a double-minded individual, ¹  unstable in all his ways.

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven ¹  across the Adriatic Sea, ²  about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. ³