The Romans' Fear of the Sea

Roman sailors might not have made deep connections with the difference between salt and fresh water when it comes to large bodies of water. The Mediterranean was more salable in the ancient world than like the Atlantic or the Pacific so they're their concepts of what constitutes ocean versus large lake are probably very different than what we would imagine mm-hmm yeah very very muchso there is a great bit that cineca is recording it from another poet as well that he's talking about Germanicus' voyage.

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