Pontic : of Pontus, on the Black Sea coast in NE Asia Minor. “Pontic waters” therefore means Pontus Euxinus or Black Sea.
... kinsmen; Page 385 Troy I will leave and her shame and live with my heart and my honour Refuged with lions on Ida or build in the highlands a city Or in an isle of the seas or by dark-driven Pontic waters. Dear are the halls of our childhood, dear are the fields of our fathers, Yet to the soul that is free no spot on the earth is an exile. Rather wherever sunlight is bright, flowers bloom ...
... Making night hideous? - or Othello in a Marlovian outburst which still carries the finer Shakespearian self-possession within it and even hints the massed Miltonic style: Like to the Pontic Sea Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace Shall ...
... and less apparent way of hinting the incalculable behind life and its conscious aims; and it evokes against it a corresponding incalculable — the demoniac obsession of Othello: Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace, Shall ...
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