in Syria, Phoenice g^fc. 25-^ 



tended it, appears to have varied very little, throughout the 

 whole Period of it, from the true Eaft Point. For after the 

 Ship could not {h-nqf^x^w) hear, or (in the Mariner's Term) 

 \οοϊ up againfl it, (v. ij•.) but they were ohliged to let her 

 drme, we cannot conceive, as there are no remarkable Currents 

 in this Part of the Sea and as the Rudder would be of little 

 Service, that it could follow any other Courfe, than as the 

 Winds directed it. Accordingly, in the Defcription of t]\Q κ varied vny 



'^ ■' ■" J- little from the 



Storm, we find the VeiTel firft under the liland Clauda, (v. 1 6.) Ea/poi«t. 

 a little to the Southward ; then it was tojed along the Bottom of 

 the Gu/ph of Adr'm, (v. 17.) and afterwards broken to Pieces 

 (v. 4.1.) at Melita, a little to the Northward of the Parallel of that 

 Part of the Coaft of Crete, from whence it may be fuppofed to 

 have been driven. The Direolion therefore of this particular 

 Etiroclydon, feems to have been firft at E, ^N. and afterwards 

 about eight Degrees to the Southward of the Eaft. 



But Grotius\ Cluver^ and others, authorized herein byEurociydon 

 the Alexandrian MS. and the Vulgate Latin, are of Opinion,SSiiiiio^I 

 that the true Reading ftiould be ΕύροακΑ/λων, Euroaquilo, a WordrtcidaT'"' 

 indeed as little known as Euroclydon, though perhaps lefs 

 entitled to be received. Now, we are to fuppofe this Euro- 

 aquilo, agreable to the Words of which it is compounded, to 

 be the Name of a Wind, lying betwixt the Eurus, (the true 

 Eaft Point) and the Aquilo, and to have been fubftituted in the 

 Place of the κ<ψλαΑ (Ctecias) of the Greeks, which, according 

 to Seneca\ had no Name among the Romans. But, allowing 

 this Obfervation to be true, nothing more, I prefume, can be 

 intended by it, than that the C^ciash^d noLatin Name afligned 

 to it by the Romans, as, among the reft, Suhfolanus was their 

 Name for the Ατπιλια'τίί, vind Afrtcus ίοχ the Μ-Ι». For, from the ^-^'^ ^^"''^ 

 Notice that is taken of theC^ci^j by theiio»2^;2Authors,it appears Romans, 

 to have been a Term fo familiar to them, that it feems, in Fai5l, 

 to have been adopted into their own Language. Thus we find 

 Vitruvius\ long hQitixe Seneca, defcribing the Pofition of the 



I Vid. Grot. Annot. in /ίίΐ. 2/. 14. 2 Ego ampleftendam heic pmnino cenfeo vocem 

 quam divus H'leronymus & ante hunc audor Vulgatae Sacrorum Bibliorum Vcifionis, iti 

 fiiis exemplaribus legerunt £ι/{ο««!λ«ν, Euroaquilo, quod vocabulum ex duabus vocibus, altera 

 Grjeca ESp©•, altera Latlnayf^«f/o, compofitum, eumdenotat ventum, qui inter Aquilonem 

 & Eurum medius fpirat, qui reda ab meridionali Creti latere navim infra Gaiidum verfus 

 Syrtin abripere poterat. C/av. Sicil. Antiq. 1. 2. p. 442. 3 Aboriente iolftitiali excitatum, 

 Grxci ]Latiucw appellant : apud nosfine nomine eft. Senec. Nat. Quaift. 1. y capii. 4 Euri 

 vero medias partes tenent i in extremis, Cuias &c Fulturnus. Vitr. Arch. li. cap 6. 



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