Note 146 — BOOK II (continued 2)
Maurice Platnauer translation
Claudian is thinking of such passages in Homer as e.g. Il. xiv. 245-246:
ῤέεθρα Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γένεσις πάντεσσι τέτυκται,
or perhaps Vergil’s Oceanumque patrem rerum (Virg. Georg. iv. 382).