Middle Ocean

Proper noun

 * 1)  the Mediterranean Sea
 * 2) * 1819, trans. Christopher Smart, Horace, The Works of Horace volume I, page 123:
 * Tremendous let her extend her name abroad to the extremest boundaries of the earth, where the middle ocean separates Europe from Africa, where the swollen Nile waters the plains; deriving more bravery from the contempt of gold yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hid in the earth, than from forcing it out for the uses of mankind, with a hand ready to make depredations on every thing that is sacred.
 * 1) * 14 January 1916, “Marseille Naval Base for Allies in Mediterranean” in Ludington Daily News, page 2:
 * Marseille, the unwearied contestant for Mediterranean trade during twenty-six centuries, and the city wherein the earliest naval traditions of France were formed, whence fleets were sent before Rome’s day of power to challenge the great Mediterranean port-city, Carthage, is today the principal naval base for the allies upon the middle ocean; […]
 * , anonymous, “Lord Bateman” (folk song) as published in John Jacob Niles, The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles:
 * He sailed in the Middle Ocean Right up into the Turkish shore, And in the harbor he made an anchor, And then his sailin’ days were o’er.
 * He sailed in the Middle Ocean Right up into the Turkish shore, And in the harbor he made an anchor, And then his sailin’ days were o’er.