Cantaber Oceanus
Καντάβριος ὠκεανός
Cantaber Oceanus (Καντάβριος ὠκεανός: Bay of Biscay), the great bay of the Atlantic, formed by the W. coast of Gaul and the N. coast of Spain, and named after the CANTABRI on the latter coast. (Claudian. 29.74; Ptol. 2.6.75, 8.4.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.