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), 97; (See also Azores.) Milton refers to the Atlantic in cla ical fashion as the western water in which the setting sun seemed to disappear. In Lycidas 191 the “Western bay” is probably the Atlantic, and the word “bay” is used for the sake of the rime. Compare the reference to the rising sun in Nativity 231. 2. Atlantic. See Atlas. Atlas (Atlantic). P. L. 2. 306; Idea Platon. 24; 4.987; 10.674; Ad Patrem 40; Mansus 72; 11.403; P. R. 4. 115; Epist. ch045.xhtml f 53