place
Oceanus
the Ocean
The encircling outer sea that the ancients imagined girdling the inhabited world; in the Germania it bounds the north and breeds amber and unknown nations.
Reading notes
- The Annals §1.70 the Ocean swells
The encircling outer sea, here the North Sea whose tides engulfed Vitellius's column.
- The Annals §2.8 through the lakes and the Ocean
The northern outer sea (the North Sea).
- The Annals §2.23 into the Ocean
The North Sea, where Germanicus's fleet was wrecked.
- The Germania §1 Ocean
The outer encircling sea of ancient geography, here bounding Germany on the north and west.
- The Histories §4.13 Ocean
The outer sea (here the North Sea) that the Romans imagined girdling the world; it washed the seaward front of the Batavian island.