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  • 'Tuque o, pelagi cui maior aperti fama, Caledonius postquam tua carbasa vexit oceanus Phrygios prius indignatus Iulos, eripe me populis et habenti nubila terrae, sancte pater, veterumque fave veneranda canenti facta virum.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Profluit oceanus, ” etc. And a little after—“Testis Lundoniaratibus, Wintonia Baccho,

    Of the Air and Soil and Commodities of This Island. Chapter X. [1577, Book I., Chapter 13; 1587, Book I., Chapter 18 1909

  • Ipse oceanus, vagis fluctibus redimitus, isto viso stat immotus; eiectus fuit e sede sua Cuvêrus, huius robore vexatus.

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • As early as the year 1817, in my work 'De distributione Geographica Plantarum, secundum caels temperiem et altitudinem Montium', I directed attention to the important influence of compact and of deeply-articulated continents on climate and human civilization, "Regiones vel per sinus lunatos in longa cornua porrectae, angulois littorum recessibus quasi membratim discerptae, vel spatia patentia in immensum, quorum littora nullis incisa angulis ambit sine aufractu oceanus" (p. 81, 182).

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • "Fremit oceanus, quasi indignetur, quod terras relinquas." {117a}

    Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605

  • Undas qvifque fuat volveni, curfuque fonoro In mare proruropant: hps magno acclinis in antro Excipit oceanus, natorumque ordine longo Dona recognofcit venientum, ultrdque ferenat Cznileam faciem, et diffufo marmore ridet.

    A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

  • Seneca touches on the possibility of the discovery of new lands beyond the ocean in a passage in his Medea (374 sqq.) which has been often quoted: uenient annis secula seris, quibus oceanus uincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tiphysque novos detegat orbes, ... nec sit terris ultima Thule.] 4.

    The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894

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