Kitap 1
2.21
When our poet makes use of the expression stormy zephyr, he means the wind which is now called by us the north-west; and by the clear-blowing zephyr our west wind; our Leuconotus is his Argestes-notus, or clearing south wind,̓αοͅγέστης νότος, the clearing south wind, Horace’s Notus Albus;— in the improved compass of Aristotle, ἀοͅγέστης was the north-west wind, the Athenian σκείοͅων. for this wind brings but few clouds, all the other southern winds bringing clouds and rain,τοῦ λοιποῦ νότου ὅλου εὔοͅου πως ὄντος. MSS. i. e. all the other southern winds having an easterly direction. We have adopted the suggestion of Kramer, and translated the passage as if it stood thus, τοῦ λοιποῦ νότου ὀλεοͅοῦ πως ὄντος. As when whirlwinds of the west A storm encounter from the clearing south.As when the west wind agitates the light clouds of the clearing south, striking them with a dreadful gale. Iliad xi. 305.Iliad xi. 305. Here he alludes to the stormy zephyr, which very frequently scatters the feathery clouds brought up by the Leuconotus, or, as it is called by way of epithet, the clearing south.
2.21
The statements made by Eratosthenes in the first book of his Geography, require some such correction as this.
