fretum

Two of the most celebrated stood upon each side of the Mediterranean at the noted passage called fretum Gaditanum -- κατα τα ακρα του πορθμου.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759

'Tis the common humour of them all, to contemn death, to wish for death, to confront death in this case, Quippe queis nec fera, nec ignis, neque praecipitium, nec fretum, nec ensis, neque laqueus gravia videntur; 'Tis their desire (saith Tyrius) to die.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ad ipsum fretum Herculis Hispaniae objacet Fessanum regnum, cujus caput Fez, urbs totius Barbariae princeps, ingens, opulenta, frequens, splendida ac magnificis superbisque aedificiis miranda.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

Septemtrione fretum Herculis et mare internum; Ab Ortu primo

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

'Repente ad studium hunc se adplicasse musicum, amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Heniochae nautis plus nocuere rates. nec potes infestis conferre Charybdin Achaeis, ter licet epotum ter uomat illa fretum, qui, quamquam dextra regione licentius errant, securum latus hoc non tamen esse sinunt.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Stupent ubi undae segne torpescit fretum, and half expected to hear some voice from the dweller in this place:

Cord and Creese James De Mille

Tarbigilus regione tonat; modo tendere cursum in Galatas, modo Bithynis incumbere fertur. sunt qui per Cilicas rupto descendere Tauro, sunt qui correptis ratibus terraque marique145 aduentare ferant; geminantur uera pauoris ingenio: longe spectari e puppibus urbis accensas, lucere fretum uentoque citatas omnibus in pelago uelis haerere fauillas.

A Council of War-and War Claudian 1912

Colchida nec referam uendentem regna parentis et lacerum fratrem stupro segetesque uirorum10 taurorumque trucis flammas uigilemque draconem et reducis annos auroque incendia facta et male conceptos partus peiusque necatos; septenosque duces ereptaque fulmine flammis moenia Thebarum et uictam, quia uicerat, urbem15 germanosque patris referam matrisque nepotis natorumque epulas conuersaque sidera retro ereptumque diem; nec Persica bella profundo indicta et magna pontum sub classe latentem inuersumque fretum terris, iter aequoris undis.

A New Poetry 1912

QUIETU i.e. Effice (quseso?) fretum, Raphael reverende, quietum.

Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859