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Pelagienne is said of pelagus, which is as much to say as the sea, for as in the sea all waters abound, in like wise abounded she in the sea of this world of all riches, and of delices.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Islandi� terrestribus agens, � Tantali; vt aiunt, horto fructus colligit, id est, ea consectatur, qu� nunquam reperiuntur, nec vsquam sunt, dum miracula hinc inde conquirere, terram et pelagus verrere, ad Histori� su� supplementum studet: Vbi tamen nihil nisi cotnmentitia tantum venari potest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Islandiæ terrestribus agens, è Tantali; vt aiunt, horto fructus colligit, id est, ea consectatur, quæ nunquam reperiuntur, nec vsquam sunt, dum miracula hinc inde conquirere, terram et pelagus verrere, ad Historiæ suæ supplementum studet: Vbi tamen nihil nisi cotnmentitia tantum venari potest.
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The following nouns in - us are Neuter: -- pelagus, _sea_; vīrus, _poison_; vulgus, _crowd_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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= Similar wording at [Sen] _Oct_ 345-48 '[cumba ...] _obruta_ ... ruit in pelagus rursumque salo/pressa _resurgit_'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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TANTA moles labitur fremibunda ex alto ingenti sonitu et spiritu. prae se undas uoluit, uertics ui suscitat: ruit prolapsa, pelagus respargit reflat. ita dum interruptum credas nimbum uoluier, 5 dum quod sublime uentis expulsum rapi saxum aut procllis, uel globosos turbines existere ictos undis concursantibus: nisi quas terrestris pontus strages conciet, aut forte Triton fuscina euertens specus10 supter radices penitus undante in freto molem ex profundo saxeam ad caelum euehit.
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SIC profectione laeti piscium lasciuiam intuemur, nec tuendi satietas capier potest. interea prope iam occidente sole inhorrescit mare, tenebrae conduplicantur noctisque et nimbum obcaecat nigror, flamma inter nuber coruscat, caelum tonitru contremit, 5 grando mixta imbri largifico subita praecipitans cadit, undique omnes uenti erumpunt, saeui existunt turbines, feruit aestu pelagus.
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Islandiæ terrestribus agens, è Tantali; vt aiunt, horto fructus colligit, id est, ea consectatur, quæ nunquam reperiuntur, nec vsquam sunt, dum miracula hinc inde conquirere, terram et pelagus verrere, ad Historiæ suæ supplementum studet: Vbi tamen nihil nisi cotnmentitia tantum venari potest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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So that it is incredible, as by Plato appeareth manifestly, that the East Indian Sea had the name Atlanticum pelagus of the mountaine
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Ibat in altum Vis Argea, petens patriam, ditataque praedi Arcis £richthonise: comes huic erat aura lecunda Per placidum curfu pelagus: Nereis ad undas Signa dabaty pars inflexis fuper ada carinii:
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
biocon commented on the word pelagus
L. pelagus = the sea.
May 8, 2015
bilby commented on the word pelagus
Not to be confused with prolagus.
May 9, 2015