Note 158 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL POETRY
Reading edition
Many of these words occur in the translations by Dryden but in none of the instances quoted is there any justification in the Latin phrase for the adjective “watery.” For instance, “watery way” = spumantibus undis; “watery reign” = altum; “watery deep” = pelago, and so on through the list.