While o’er the encircling deep Britannia’s thunder roars.
Thomson, Castle of Indolence, Canto ii.
XXXIX. “And lording o’er thy empire of the Deep.”
Our dominion of the sea seems to be in some degree indicated by this line of Ovid, from his splendid panegyric on Julius Cæsar:
Scilicet æquoreos plus est domuisse Britannos!
Met. xv. 752.
XLIV. ——“Resistless spread
Through boundless Asia, forced to bear thy arms.”
——Super et Garamantas et Indos
Proferet imperium * * *