oceanus

IPA: ˈoʊʃʌnʌs

Root Word: Oceanus

(Greek mythology) Personification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god Ωκεανός Ποταμός (Ōkeanós Potamós, “River Ocean”) that encircled the earth. With his sister-wife, Tethys, he fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.

Examples of "oceanus" in Sentences

"Fremit oceanus, quasi indignetur, quod terras relinquas." {117a}
Profluit oceanus, etc. And a little afterTestis Lundoniaratibus, Wintonia Baccho,
Ipse oceanus, vagis fluctibus redimitus, isto viso stat immotus; eiectus fuit e sede sua Cuvêrus, huius robore vexatus.
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.
'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.
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.
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).