in Syria^ Phoenice ^c. ^f^ 



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 (civ7B(p>Aju5y) hear, or (in the Mariner's Term) 

 loof lip ogainfi it, (v. i y. ) but they were obliged to let her 

 drive, 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 diredled it. Accordingly, in the Defcription of x}ciQi'i>ar\edvcry 

 Storm, we find the Veffel firft under the Uland Clauda, (v. 1 6.) £«/? P'"*^ 

 a little to the Southward ; then it was toj/ed along the Bottom of 

 the Gulph of ^dria, (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 Direction therefore of this particular 

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

 about eight Degrees to the Southward of the Eaft. 



But Grotius\ Cluver ' ^nd others, authorized herein byEurociydon 

 the yilexandrian MS. and the Vulgate Latin, areof Opinion,KS"kquHo! 

 that the true Reading ftiould be Eupo*ja;A«v, Euroaquilo, a Word ffc cSaT^' 

 indeed as little known as Euroclydon , though perhaps lefs 

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

 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 ^quilo, and to have been fubftituted in the 

 Place of the Kvjfacu. (C^cias) of the Greeks, which, according 

 to Seueca\ had no Name among the Romans. But, allowino- 

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

 intended by it, than that the Cteciash^d noLatinName afligned 

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

 Name for the A7niAi«TM, and .^^r/cM for the Ai'-I. For, from the ^'^^ ^^^-^'^^ 

 Notice that is taken of theC^ci^xjby the7i^o»2^;2Authors,it appears Romans. 

 to have been a Term fo familiar to them, that it feems, in Fa6l, 

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

 Vttrumus\ long heioxQ Seneca, defcribing the Pofition of the 



I VId. Qrot. Annot. in Adi. 27. 14. 2 Ego ampledendam heic omnino cenfco voceni 

 Guam divus Jdieronj/mus & ante hunc audor Vulgatae Sacrorura Bibliorum Vcrlionis, in 

 luis excmplaribus legeninc Effsaw/Vav, EuroAquilo, quod vocabulum ex duabus vocibus, altera 

 Graeca ESp©-, altera Latinay^y«j/o, compolitum, eumdenotat ventum, qui inter Aquilonem 

 & Eurum medius fpirat, qui rcda ab mcridionali CreU latere navim infra Gmdum verfus 

 Syrtin abripere poterat. C/ttv. Sicil. Antiq. 1. 2. p. 442. 3 Aborientc folftitiali cxcitatum, 

 Grxci Ka(xi(tc appellant : apud nosiine nomine eft. Senec. Nat. Quxft. 1. j. cap. 16. 4 Euri 

 vero medias partes tenent i in extremis, C<£«4X & r«/f«r»«y. Vitr. /irch. 1. 1. cap. 6. 



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