Postby KingHarvest » 2009-07-02, 16:42
It's the past participle of adfligo, "to dash, overthrow, overturn, harass, distress, injure, make suffer" (the English cognate is "afflict"), so the sentence is, "When he came down to the shore, he found his ship so damaged by the storms that it was practically useless for sailing."
Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
-A.E. Housman