Meaning [they] being in many perils.
Kai taut' echontes kumatôn en ankalais: anti tou ontes en pollois kindunois.
Aristophanes,
Frogs 704 (web address 1), with the gloss of the
scholia there; cf.
kappa 2675. (Though the chorus has just been referring to sea-battles, here the phrase is indeed intended metaphorically.)
The phrase 'in the arms of the waves' (i.e. storm-tossed) is itself a quotation:
Archilochus fr.213 IEG.
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