ο 5ο Vhyjical Ohfervations &c. 



Cacias, without diftinguifliing it, as Seneca doth, by Greek 

 Charaders, or making any Apology for the Introdudion of a 

 foreign Name. Tliny ' hkewife, who was nearly contemporary 

 with Seneca, doth the fame \ calling it alfo Helle§ontias \ 

 as blowing probably from that Quarter. The Ccec'ias therefore 

 muft have been known very early in the Roman Navigation ; 

 andconfequently, even provided the Mariners had been i^ow^w, 

 there could be no Neceifity, at this Time, and upon fuch an 

 Occafion, for the Introdudion of a new Term. 

 neshipna. But as wc learn, {y4as τη. 6.) that the Ship was οΐ^ /exan- 

 cSdJ! dria, failing to Italy, we may fuppofe the Mariners to have 

 been Grecians, and, as fuch, too well acquainted with the re- 

 ceived and vernacular Terms of their Occupation, to admit of 

 this Graco-Latin, or barbarous Appellation, as they might think 

 Euroaquiio ^^-^ ^j^^ \^ γγ^2Μ be iuftlv cnough objeded, that, provided the 



taken Notice J ., , r- λ • • i 1 <τ\τ ^ 



ofhymAu- Euroaquiio had prevailed fo early, it is much that Puny, ^. 

 Gell'ms, ^ptileim, Ifidore, and others, who wrote particular 

 DiiTertations upon the Names and Diverfities of Winds \ ihould 

 not have taken the leaft Notice of it. V^h.Qxt^%Euroclydon being 

 perhaps no other, than fome peculiar Word among the Mari- 

 ners, denoting one of the ftrong Levanters which I have 

 been defcribing, we are to be the lefs furprized, why St. 

 Luke, (who was aftually prefent in the Storm and may be 

 fuppofed to have heard the very Expreifion ) is the only 

 Author who records it. Befides, when we are told, that this 

 tempefluous Wind was called Euroclydon, the Expreifion feems 

 to fuppofe it, not to have been one of the common Winds, 

 fuch as were denominated from their Site and Pofition, but 

 fome extraordinary one, with Regard chiefly to the Quality 

 and Circumftances of it. 



r^i Euroa- jt Hkcwife iiiay be ftill further infilled upon, in Vindication 



αμύο would -^ _ • λ λ λ -n C ' c l^' 



ioave drove ©f the rcccivcd Reading, that provided the Folition ot this 



them into the ,.._,^_, /i./i_ i_ 



G»iih */• Euroaquiio, even at the Beginning of the Tempeit, (now mucn 

 foever it might have varied afterwards to the Eaftward) had 

 been at E. N. E, or N. E. hy E. (and the Euroaquiio, as falling 

 in, by Suppofition, betwixt the Eurus and the ^quilo, could 

 have no other Direftion ) yet even, upon this HypotheftSy 



I Vid. P/;«. Nat. Hid. 1.2. cap. 47, 2 C^cwi media inter Aquiloncm & EKortum Aqui- 

 noftialem, ab Ortu Soliliciaii. Piin. ut fupra. 5 dchn aliqui vocanc Heliefpontian. Pltn. 

 ibid. Koux/'df, Sr EiXDiOTrTiw wio/ κοιλία, ^n^?. Meteor. I. 2. cap. 6. 4 Vid. Pl'm. Nat. Hilt. 

 1. 2. cap. 47. M- Gell. Nod. Attic. 1. 2. cap. 22. Aptd. de Mundo. Ifid. Orig. 1- 13• 



cap. II. the 



