Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Eurus

(2 syl.). The east wind. So called, says Buttmann, from eös, the east. Probably it is eos cru'o, drawn from the east. Ovid confirms this etymology: “Vires capit Eurus ab ortu. ” Breman says it is a corruption of eoros.

While southern gales or western oceans roll,
And Eurus steals his ice-winds from the pole.

Darwin: Economy of Vegetation, canto vi.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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