Continuation of the prose on the great sea monster
The verso, invisible before restoration, continues the apostrophe: crowds running to the shore to behold the creature
This verso, invisible before restoration, continues the literary apostrophe to the great sea monster begun on the recto. In a single exclamatory line Leonardo imagines how many peoples ran to the shores to behold the horrible creature when it appeared amid the waves of the swollen and great Ocean. The writing survives only faintly.
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The crowds running to the shore
The apostrophe continues from the recto: 'O how many peoples ran to our shores to see you, when you appeared, horrible, amid the waves of the swollen and great Ocean.' It caps the vision of the monster with the crowd's astonishment.