ariſing in the Eaſt, which waſ followed by a violent guſt of wind from the ſame quarter, and oppoſite to the courſe they held. In the ſame manner the cloud, deſcribed in the Book of Kings[1], foretold wind, as well as rain; and Sir John Chardin informs us, that great ſtorms are wont to begin with ſuch a kind of cloud, and that it is the ſign of them at ſea in the Eaſtern countries[2].
The Eaſt wind is often ſpoken of as being of a violent and dangerous nature. It is ſaid in the Book of Pfalmſ[3] to "break the ſhips of Tarſhiſh;" and a ſimilar expreſſion concerning it is found in the Prophet Ezechiel[4]. Virgil mentions its ravages in the Woods of Mount Caucaſus, a part of which, and that with which Virgil was moſt likely to be acquainted, lies on the Eaſtern border of the Black Sea.
Ipſæ Caucaſio ſteriles in vertice ſylvæ,
Quas animoii Euri aſſdue franghntqne feruntque.
It is deſcribed by others as accompanied by clouds, and as raiſing ſuch a ſwell of the ſea, as Arrian tells us was experienced by his fleet. .
quodcunque minabitur Eurus
Fluctibus Heſperiiſs Horat. Carm. lib. i. ver. 25.ubi nubifer Eurus
Naufragium ſpargens, operit freta. {{Smallcaps|Sil. Italia. lib. x. ver. 323, 324.Niger rudentes Eurus inverſo mari
Fractoſque remos differat. Hor. Epod. x. ver. 5.
- ↑ "Behold there ariſeth a little cloud from the ſea, of the bigneſs of a man's hand. And it came to paſs in the mean time, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain." B. I. ch. xviii. ver. 43. 45.
- ↑ Harmer's Obſervat. vol. i. p. 56.
- ↑ Pſalm xlviii. 7.
- ↑ Chap. xnii. 25.
