Two of the most celebrated stood upon each side of the Mediterranean at the noted passage called fretum Gaditanum -- κατα τα ακρα του πορθμου. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
Stupent ubi undae segne torpescit fretum, and half expected to hear some voice from the dweller in this place. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Heniochae nautis plus nocuere rates. nec potes infestis conferre Charybdin Achaeis, ter licet epotum ter uomat illa fretum, qui, quamquam dextra regione licentius errant, securum latus hoc non tamen esse sinunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
'Tis the common humour of them all, to contemn death, to wish for death, to confront death in this case, Quippe queis nec fera, nec ignis, neque praecipitium, nec fretum, nec ensis, neque laqueus gravia videntur; 'Tis their desire (saith Tyrius) to die. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
QUIETU i.e. Effice (quseso?) fretum, Raphael reverende, quietum. From Wordnik.com. [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference
LIIL EoDEM anno, Julia fupremum diem obiit, ob impudicitiam olim a patre Augufto Pandatarii infuld, mox oppido Rheginorum, qui Siculum fretum accolunt, claufa. From Wordnik.com. [C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia] Reference
LET us examine places much more exposed to the fury of the waves and currents than the coast of Carthagena, the narrow fretum, for example, between Italy and Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 4 (historical)] Reference
Xege Erebi: ferat haec diro mea jufla nepoti Germanmn exilio fretum, Argolicifque tumentem Hofpitiis, quod fponte cupit, procul impius aula Arceait, ahernum regni inficiatus honorem. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference
Pulsante fretum mitior unda est. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Lege Erebi: ferat haec diro mea) ufla nepoti Germanum exilio fretum, Argolicifque tumentem Hofpitiis, quod fponte cupit, procul impius aula Ai'ceat, altemum regni inficiatus honorem. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the English Poets] Reference
Ignotúmq; fretum? maduerunt Saxone fuso. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England] Reference
Nec patitur conferre fretum; si terra recedat. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
Longinquum penetrare fretum, penetrare sorores. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
Per fretum febris, by these streights to die, 10. From Wordnik.com. [Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse] Reference
Lat. fretum. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Francis Drakes Famous Voyage Round the World] Reference
258, "Hesperium fretum.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Per fretum febris ” by these straits to die; ”. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
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