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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-The fierce storm continues.
-
 # When the fourteenth night had come
 
-The ordinal number "fourteenth" can be translated as "fourteen" or "14." Alternate translation: "After 14 days since the storm started, that night" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers]])
+"After 14 days since the storm started, that night" 
 
 # as we were driven this way and that
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "as the wind blew us back and forth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"as the wind blew us back and forth" 
 
 # the Adriatic Sea
 
-This is the sea between Italy and Greece. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])
+This is the sea between Italy and Greece.