AGROUND Copy link • AGROUNDTo run aground, vado, in vadum or litoribus illidi (to run on a sand-bank or the shore): in litus ejici (to be stranded and wrecked): in terram deferri (to run ashore). The fleet ran aground, and was wrecked near the Balearic Islands, classis ad Baleares ejicitur. To be aground, sidere (to touch the bottom, and so stick fast). Figuratively, to be aground; i. e., in difficulty, unable to proceed, in luto esse (Plaut.): haerere, haesitare (Ter.): difficultatibus affectum esse := to be in debt, aere alieno obrutum or demersum esse.