Terrene Sea

English

Proper noun

the Terrene Sea

1. (obsolete) Mediterranean Sea
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i, signature [B8], verso:

     You know our armie is inuincible:
     As many circumcized Turkes we haue,
     And warlike bands of Chriſtians renyed,
     As hath the Ocean or the Terrene ſea
     Small drops of water, […]