The Arctic Ocean

the north, where are the children of the A rim as pians, full of warlike frenzy, some call the sea the frozen, and Cronian, and others indeed call it also dead, because of the powerle sun, for tardily over that sea he shines, and always he is magnified in shady clouds. ” (LI. 30-35.) The voyages described in Mo.ycoz^m 5 were all to the Arctic Ocean, which was at that time the only part of the ocean bordering upon Ru ia. For the “mountains of ice” on the Cronian Sea, see the article Vaiguts. Croyland (Croiland). Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 199, 225, 233. A monastery in Lincoln shire. Ctesiphon (Tesiphon). P. R. 3. 292, 300. An ancient city on the River Tigris. Pliny writes of it: “The Parthians in despight againe of this citie [Seleucia], and for to doe the like by it, as sometime was done to the old Babylon, built the Citie Ctesiphon within three miles of it, in the tract called Chal on it is, even to dispeople and impoverish it, which now at this present is the head citie of the king do me.” Strabo (6. 26.) says of it: “Near this [Seleucia] is a very large village called Ctesiphon, in which the kings of the Parthians spend the winter, to spare the inhabitants of Seleucia, lest they should be annoyed by a Scythian and warlike people. But on account of the Part hi an power, it is a city rather than a village, because it receives such a great multitude, and is provided by them with supplies, and has the trades and arts needful for them. There the kings of the Parthians are in the habit of spending the winter because of the mild air.” (16. 1. 16.) CuUen (Coloni a, Coloni ens is). Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 80; Hirelings 5. 357; Commonplace 112; Sixteen Let. 3 (twice). Cologne, a city of Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. Decl. Poland 8. 467. ch100.xhtml c 108