Beached

In strandings involving multiple deaths, autopsies reveal that the vast majority of the deceased animals were healthy before they beached.

Have you seen a beached whale before?

Rescuers are trying to save scores of whales beached in the Australian state of Tasmania.

The Sri Lanka Navy and other groups rescued more than 100 short-finned pilot whales Tuesday after the whales beached themselves on the nation’s southwestern coastline.

Now the ships were usually beached on the dry sand: / the young men were busy with weddings and their fresh fields: / I was deciding on laws and homesteads: suddenly, / from some infected region of the sky, came a wretched plague, / corrupting bodies, trees, and crops, and a season of death. / They relinquished sweet life, or dragged their sick limbs / around: then Sirius blazed over barren fields: / the grass withered, and the sickly harvest denied its fruits.

We saw several beached whales.

Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;

1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63, Even now Jove shed the image of a bull, Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore On the beached mountainside of Crete,

[…] Yet she glanced no thought At her own mermaid nakedness but gathering The long black serpents of beached seaweed wove Wreaths for old Jinny and crowned and wound her. […]

It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.