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"The Sea! The Sea!" Thalatta! Thalatta! from Xenophon's Anabasis. It was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) in Armenia after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against Persian Empire in the year 401 BC.
closed sea: In law, a sea under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all others. Mare Ditat, Rosa Decorat: The sea enriches, the rose adorns: Motto of Montrose, Angus and HMS Montrose: mare liberum: free sea: In law, a sea open to international shipping navigation. mare nostrum: our sea
The first verse refers to God the Father fixing limits for the sea as described in Job 38:8-11 and Psalm 104:6-9. The second verse refers to Jesus' miracles of calming the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 , Mark 4:35:41 , and Luke 8:22-25 and walking on the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Mark 6:45-53 , Matthew 14:22-34 , and John 6:15-21 .
A mari usque ad mare (Latin: [aː ˈmariː ˈuːskᶣɛ ad ˈmarɛ]; French: D'un océan à l'autre, French pronunciation: [dœ̃nɔseˈã aˈloʊ̯tʁ]; English: From sea to sea) is the Canadian national motto. The phrase comes from the Latin Vulgate translation of Psalm 72:8 in the Bible:
"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. [1] The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular culture and can be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Seven Seas east of Africa and Indian subcontinent (as told with Sinbad's seven journeys, and Captain Kidd), or is sometimes applied to the Caribbean Sea and seas around ...
The collection includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes", two of Masefield's best known poems. Many of the poems had been published in Masefield's earlier collections, Salt-Water Ballads (1902), Ballads (1903) and Ballads and Poems (1910). They were included in The Collected Poems of John Masefield, published by Heinemann in 1923.
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Sorensen highlighted that as an example of quotes mistakenly attributed to Kennedy. [ 4 ] Michael W. Moynihan , Kennedy's first spokesman for the Office of the United States Trade Representative , is also credited with being the initial drafter of the phrase in Kennedy's 1963 speech to a conference of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade .