nian territory to Lemnos, well knowing the thing to be impracticable, as Attica lies much to the ſouth of Lemnos[1].
"Miltiades however, having gained poſſeſſion of Elærus, which lies to the north-eaſt of Lemnos, failed from thence as from a part of the Athenian territory, during the prevalence of the Eteſian winds, and claimed their promſle of a ſurrender."
It is clear from this account, that none but a northerly wind would have enabled him to claim this promiſe; and it is equally clear, that the Eſetern winds in Greece were northerly[2], or northweſterly, not eaſterly, as Mr. Rennel (miſſed probably by the found of the word) ſuppoſes.
Next Herodotus only ſays, that Miltiades ſailed from Elæus to Lemnos in one day, not that the diſtance between theſe places was the utmoſt extent of a day's ſail. Miltiades had no reaſon to go
- ↑ Herodot. lib. vi. ul finem.
- ↑ It muſt he owned that the Eteſian winds are differently repreſented, ſame writers deſcribing them as inclining to the eaſt, otherſ to the weſt, but all agreeing that their principal direction was northerly. But it is clear from Ariſtotle, who may properly be our guide on this occaſion, and whoſe account reconciles theſe apparently contradictory opinions, that the Eteſian winds in Greece always blow from the weſt of the north point, though within theſe limits their direction varied. In the eaſtern countries, he}}ls}]ays, they were eaſterly winds.
Mare quoque Eteſiæ flabant: hamm flatu in orizntem navigantibus ſecundum, inde adverſum erst. Tacitus, Hiſtor. lib. ii.
Τῶν δὲ ἀνέμων, οἱ μὲν χειμῶνος, ὥσπερ οἱ νότοι, δυναϛεύοντες, οἱ δὲ θέρους, ὡς οἱ Ἐτησίαι λεγόμενοι, μίξον ἔχοντες τῶν τε ἀπὸ τῆς ἄρκτου φερομένων καὶ ζεφύρων Ariſtot. de Mundo, cap. iv. p. 853. Ed. Du Val.
Οἱ δ' Ἐτησίαι περιΐϛανται τοῖς μὲν περὶ δυσμὰς οἰκοῦσιν, ἐκ τῶν Ἀπαρκτιων εἰς Θρασκίας, Ἀργέϛας, καὶ Ζεφύρους. ὁ γὰρ Ἀπαρκτίας Ζεφύρος ἐϛίν. ἀρχόμενοι μὲν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἄρκτου, τελευτῶντες δὲ εἰς τοὺς πόῥῥω. τοῖς δὲ πρὸς Ἕω περιΐϛανται μέχρι τοῦ Ἀπηλιωτου Ariſtot. Meteorol. lib. ii. cap. vi. psg. 796.
In the table of the winds in Vitrvius, the Eteſian winds are placed only fifteen degrees to the north of the well point. See the Plate at the end of this Work.
