The north polar sea. Pliny says, “A Thule unius diei navigatioʹně marě concretum, a nonnullis cronium appellaʹtur.” (Natural History, iv. 16.)
“As when two polar winds blowing adverse
Upon the Cronian sea.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 290.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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