Adriatic Sea
a'-dri-a (Westcott-Hort: ho Hadrias or ho Adrias): In Greek
Adrias (Polybios i.2.4), Adriatike Thalassa (Strabo iv.204),
and Adriatikon Pelagos (Ptolemy iii.15.2), and in Latin
Adriaticum mare (Livy xl.57.7), Adrianum mare (Cicero in
Pisonem 38), Adriaticus sinus (Livy x.2.4), and Mare
superurn (Cicero ad Att. 9.5.1). The Adriatic Sea is a nam...
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more properly A'drias the Adriatic Sea. Ac 27:27 The word
seems to have been derived from the town of Adria, near the
Po. In Paul's time it included the whole sea between Greece
and Italy, reaching south from Crete to Sicily. [MELITA]...
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Acts 27:27; R.V., "the sea of Adria"), the Adriatic Sea, including
in Paul's time the whole of the Mediterranean lying between Crete
and Sicily. It is the modern Gulf of Venice, the _Mare Superum_ of
the Romans, as distinguished from the _Mare Inferum_ or Tyrrhenian
Sea....
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The gulf bounded on the E. by Dalmatia and Albania, and on the
W. by Italy. It was often however understood in a wider sense,
as by Paul's almost contemporary geographer, Ptolemy, namely,
the Mare Superum, including the Ionian sea, between Sicily on
the W., and Greece and Crete on the E., and Africa on the S.,
the "Syrtic basin" (Acts 27:17). ...
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But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up
and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they
drew near to some country;...
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