Sea

Therefore they lie, who today boast that they discovered that sea.

Long before they ever came, every single part of that ocean had been long since explored.

And as for the assumption of the Portuguese that no one has sailed that ocean before themselves, that is anything but true.

its name was Theches.

and in a moment they heard the soldiers shouting, The Sea!

When the guide came, he said that he would lead them within five days to a place from which they could see the sea;

Now if Ceres is from bearing (for so you said), the earth itself is a goddess (and so it is held;

Again, few know that the twenty-seventh of the month is best for opening a wine jar, and putting yokes on the necks of oxen and mules and swift-footed horses, and for hauling a swift ship of many thwarts down to the sparkling sea;

earth quakes and the sea also where fishes shoal.

great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly:

When Leda had lain with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, she bare them beneath the peak of the great hill Taygetus, — children who are deliverers of men on earth and of swift-going ships when stormy gales rage over the ruthless sea.

There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted Hours welcomed her joyously.

But fluids, which cannot be limited or restrained, except they be contained within some other substance, cannot be occupied.

The same appellation of common may be given to the sand of the shore, which being incapable of cultivation, is left free to yield its inexhaustable supplies for the use of all.

Notwithstanding the statements above made, it must be admitted that some things are impossible to be reduced to a state of property, of which the Sea affords us an instance both in its general extent, and in its principal branches.

But on the contrary the Egyptian commander, who, persecuting the people of God — once afflicted, long denied to its own Lord — rushed into battle, after so many proofs of the plagues, perished by the dividing of the sea, which to the people alone it was permitted to pass through, the waves rolling back.

The fact is, I am reminded that fishermen, though their business is in the sea, and they neither stop the boat to take a look nor slow down, nevertheless, when they see the crops as they scud past the farms, do not hesitate to express an opinion about the land, which is the good and which is the bad sort, now condemning, now praising it.