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Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
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Verse 12. Sea. Ungovernable and malicious. Some of the ancients looked upon the sea as a huge animal, whose breathing caused the tides. Strabo i. Solin xxxii.—They represented its fury as proverbial. “Fire, the sea, and woman are three evils;” and they call the most savage people sons of Neptune. Agel. xv. 21.—Am I so violent as to require such barriers? Am I capacious, or strong enough to bear such treatment? Calmet.
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