I.the great sea that encompasses the land, the ocean: “omnis terra parva quaedam insula est, circumfusa illo mari, quod Atlanticum, quod magnum, quem Oceanum appellatis in terris,” Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 21: Oceanum rubra obruit aethra, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. p. 418 Vahl.): “Oceani ostium,” Cic. Imp. Pomp. 12, 33; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 207: “Oceani freta,” i. e. the Strait of Gades, Strait of Gibraltar, id. Tusc. 1, 20, 45; cf. id. N. D. 3, 10, 24: “quae sunt maritimae civitates Oceanumque attingunt,” Caes. B. G. 2, 34: “circumvagus,” circumfluent, Hor. Epod. 16, 41; cf. “circumfusus,” Rutil. 1, 56: “dissociabilis,” Hor. C. 1, 3, 22: “beluosus,” id. ib. 4, 14, 48: “ruber,” id. ib. 1, 35, 32.—The form Oceanum, n., is found only in apposition with mare: “quam (insulam) mare Oceanum circumluit,” Tac. H. 4, 12.—In acc.: “proximus mare Oceanum,” Caes. B. G. 3, 7, 2; cf.: “se in nostrum et Oceanum mare extendit,” Mel. 2, 6, 2.—In dat.: “mari Oceano,” Amm. 23, 6, 12.—In abl.: “mari Oceano aut amnibus longinquis saeptum imperium,” Tac. A. 1, 9.—(Supposed examples of the adjectival use of Oceanus, as Oceano fluctu and litore, in Juv. 11, 94 and 113 Jan; Oceanas aquas, Ven. Carm. 3, 9, 4; “Oceanis aquis,” id. ib. 7, 12, 56, are dub.; several edd. read in Juv., Oceani; and in Ven., in the first passage, Oceanus, and in the second, Oceani.)—
2. Personified, as a deity, the son of Cœlus and Terra, the husband of Tethys, and the father of the rivers and nymphs, Cic. Univ. 11; id. N. D. 3, 19, 48; Hyg. Fab. praef.; Cat. 88, 6.—The ancient philosophers regard water as the primary element of all things; “hence: Oceanumque patrem rerum,” Verg. G. 4, 382.—
B. Transf.
1. A large bathing-tub (postclass.), Lampr. Alex. Sev. 25, 5.—
II. Hence, ‡
A. Ōcĕănensis , e, adj., of or belonging to the ocean, situated by the sea-side, Eckhel. D. N. 8, p. 110.—
B. Ōcĕănītis , ĭdis, f., a daughter of Ocean: “Clioque et Beroe soror, Oceanitides ambae,” Verg. G. 4, 341; Hyg. Fab. praef.
