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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of fretum.

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  • Commanorum regnum decurrit Grandis fluuius Echil, qui omni hyemali tempore in magna spissitudine gelatur; in superiori quoque parte huius regni inter duo freta Caspiæ, et Oceani, mons sublimis est valde Chocas.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Commanorum regnum decurrit Grandis fluuius Echil, qui omni hyemali tempore in magna spissitudine gelatur; in superiori quoque parte huius regni inter duo freta Caspi�, et Oceani, mons sublimis est valde Chocas.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • BOOK THIRD l. 127 -- _freta concita terris_ with all the best MSS.; _consita_ Con.l. 152 -- _qua se Plena per insertas fundebat Luna fenestras.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Pompeio dabis altius sepulcrum. haec primo iuuenis canes sub aeuo, ante annos Culicis Maroniani. cedet Musa rudis ferocis Enni75 et docti furor arduus Lucreti, et qui per freta duxit Argonautas, et qui corpora prima transfigurat. quid maius loquar? ipsa te Latinis

    Lucan's Birthday 1912

  • QVID petam praesidi aut exequar, quoue nunc auxilio exili aut fugae freta sim? arce et urbe orba sum: quo accedam, quo applicem, cui nec arae patriae domi stant, fractae et disiectae iacent,

    Andromache 1912

  • When Aeneas first sees Dido in all her stately beauty, he says: [440] in freta dum fluvii current, _dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa_, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cunque vocant terrae.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • Christianitate suis his actionibus adjunctum freta, postquam viderit sedis

    The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Olearon, niveamque Paron, fparfasque per aequor Cycladas, et crebris legimus freta concita te ris.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • Sollicitant alii remis freta cxca, ruuntque In femun, penetrant aulas, et limina regum;

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Continuo, vcntis furgcntibus, aut freta ponti Incipiunt agitata tumefcerc, et aridas altis Montibus audiri fragor; aut refonantia longe Litora mifceri, et nemorum increbrefcere munnur.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

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