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Definition of Mare nostrum
1. Noun. (our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mare Nostrum
Literary usage of Mare nostrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mexico and the Caribbean by George Hubbard Blakeslee (1920)
"AMERICA'S "mare nostrum" By Kirby Thomas, Consulting Mining Engineer, New York
The Caribbean region is usually considered to include the countries, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... and who is none other than Sir Samuel Hoare in person, inspected the Mediterranean,
which was to become mare nostrum— but England's rather than Italy's. ..."
3. The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe (1847)
"... illos praecipue, qui mare nostrum a monte Argentario ... instrumentis abunde
munitas in mare nostrum ..."
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