Pelagus, pélagi. pen. cor. tam masculini, qum neutri generis. Val. Flac.The sea: the bottome of the sea.Furor pelagi. Lucan. The rage of the sea.Gemitus ingens pelagi.Virg.The great roaring of the sea.Minæ pelagi.Virg.Troublous surges menasing a great tempest.Quies pelagi.Stat.Calmenesse of.Rector pelagi. Neptunus. Ouid.Sonora pelagi. Lucr. Immire pelagus, Vide IMMITIS.Languidum. Sen. Sonans.Virg.The roaring sea.Tempestatibus pelagi actus.Virg.Cadens pelagus. Stat Truci pelago committere ratem. Hor. Aperto pelago decurrere.Virg.To flit in the wide sea.Hvems desæuit pelago. Virgil. There is a sore tempest on the sea.Patenti pelago volans dat vela.Virg.Etrare pelago.Virg.Euersum pelagus infimo solo. Sen. The sea tossing vp waues from the very bottome.Dubium pelagus feruet. Sen. Feruet æstu pelagus. Cicero. The sea is very troublous and mounting with waues and surges.Mare premit arua pelago.Virg.Retundit pelagus Boreas. Luc. Allayeth the rage of the sea.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pĕlăgus, i (Gr. plur. pelagē, Lucr. 5, 35; 6, 619), n., = pe/lagos, the sea (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for Lat. mare): fervit aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157: pelagus remis petere coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 40: in pelago, Lucr. 4, 432: pelagus tenuere rates, the open sea, the main.Verg. A. 5, 8: pelago Danaūm insidias Praecipitare, id. ib. 2, 36: pelago dare vela patenti, id. G. 2, 41; 1, 142: qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem, Hor. C. 1, 3, 11: pelago terrāque pericula passus, Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 7: lustrare pelagus, Val. Fl. 3, 608; Plin. 9, 10, 12, 35; Juv. 1, 135; 12, 17: saeviente pelago, Tac. A. 15, 46: vortices pelagi, Just. 4, 1, 13: nantes lubrico pelagi, Val. Max. 3, 2, 10: pelagus Ciliciae, Vulg. Act. 27, 5.— Poet., a mass of water, like the sea: pelago premit arva sonanti, Verg. A. 1, 246.— II. Fig., for an immense mass or extent: quam pauca excepta verba ex pelago sermonis pulli minus trita afferant,
the ocean of vulgar language
, Varr. L. L. 9, 26, 33: Herodiani scriptorum pelagus, Prisc. Ep. ad Jul. 4; cf. a sea of troubles, Shaksp.