Cantabrian Surge
. The Bay of Biscay. So called from the Cantăbri who dwelt about the Biscayan shore. Suetonius tells us that a thunderbolt fell in the Cantabrian Lake (Spain) “in which twelve axes were found.” (Galba, viii.)
“She her thundering army leads
To Calpê [Gibraltar] … . or the rough
Cantabrian Surge.”
Akenside: Hymn to the Naiades.
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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.