[30] totum amplectitur orbem: cf. Hom. Il. 18.399 “ἀψοπ̓π̓όου Ὠκεανοῖο” ; Aesch. Prom. 138 “τοῦ περι πᾶσάν θ᾽ εἱλισσομένου χθόν᾽ ἀκοιμήτῳ ῥεύματι … πατρο , Ὠκεανοῦ” ; Val. Flac. 1.195 “terras salo complecteris omnes” ; Tib. 4.1.147 “Oceanus ponto qua continet orbem” ; Bryant, Thanatopsis 42 ““and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste.””
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