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Oceanus

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Canonical name
Oceanus
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None
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Location
Scope
Individual
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None
Editorial note
Treated as a destination because Thetis says Jove went to Oceanus; no further nature is inferred.

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Present entities

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EthiopiansCharacter1 observation
·Reported

Thetis reports the Ethiopians as gathered at Oceanus for the feast attended by Jove.

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Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians
godsDeity1 observation
·Reported

Thetis reports that the other gods accompanied Jove to Oceanus.

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For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him
JoveDeity1 observation
·Reported

Thetis reports that Jove had gone to Oceanus for the Ethiopian feast and had not yet returned.

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For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him. He will return to Olympus twelve days hence
SunDeity2 observations
·Direct

The Sun sinks physically into Oceanus at nightfall.

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The sun’s glorious orb now sank into Oceanus
·Direct

The sun is sent into and sets in the waters of Oceanus.

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Juno sent the busy sun, loth though he was, into the waters of Oceanus; so he set
Twelve filly foalsAnimal1 observation
·Reported

Aeneas reports that the twelve filly foals could gallop over Ocean’s breakers.

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Twelve filly foals did they conceive and bear him, and these, as they sped over the rich plain, would go bounding on over the ripe ears of corn and not break them; or again when they would disport themselves on the broad back of Ocean they could gallop on the crest of a breaker

Claims

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·Simile

In the comparison, Oceanus has flowing waters crossed by the migrating birds on their way to attack the Pygmies.

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over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies
·Direct

Oceanus is described as deep, with slow and still currents from which the sun rises.

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slow still currents of deep Oceanus
·Direct

The sun’s glorious orb sinks into Oceanus as night falls over the land.

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sun’s glorious orb now sank into Oceanus and drew down night over the land
·Reported

In Juno’s lying tale, Oceanus is the gods’ origin and her foster-father with Tethys, and the pair have ceased sleeping together through anger.

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Oceanus (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys: they received me in their house, took care of me, and brought me up, having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in the depths that are under earth and sea. I must go and see them that I may make peace between them; they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long while
·Reported

Juno’s lying tale calls Oceanus the gods’ progenitor and former fosterer and says he is estranged from Tethys.

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to visit Oceanus, from whom all we gods proceed, and mother Tethys; they received me into their house, took care of me, and brought me up. I must go and see them that I may make peace between them: they have been quarrelling, and are so angry that they have not slept with one another this long time.
·Direct

Oceanus is represented as the stream the circling Bear alone never enters.

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the Bear, which men also call the Wain and which turns round ever in one place, facing. Orion, and alone never dips into the stream of Oceanus
·Direct

Oceanus is represented as a mighty stream around the shield’s outermost rim.

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mighty stream of the river Oceanus

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·Reported
went yesterday to Oceanus
·Simile
the flowing waters of Oceanus
·Direct
The sun’s glorious orb now sank into Oceanus
·Reported
Oceanus (from whom all we gods proceed)
·Remembered
the waters of Oceanus from whom all of them proceed
·Direct
streams of Oceanus
·Direct
except Oceanus
·Reported
the mighty stream of deep-flowing Oceanus
·Reported
the streams of Oceanus

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Book 1 · Passage 36

Thetis wept and answered, ‘My son, woe is me that I should have borne or suckled you. Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight. For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him. He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him.’