And sailors set out thither with the Indian Etesian winds, about the, month of July, that is Epiphi : it is more dangerous then, but through these winds the voyage is more direct, and sooner completed ."
12.
When the miscreants were found out and executed, and a shrine erected to Zeus Ikmaios, the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth the Etesian wind should blow and cool all the Aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of Sirius.
13.
It is apparent Pliny had recently read Aristotle and sought to resurrect some of the abandoned Aristotelean names ( Boreas / Aparctias, Meses, Etesian winds, Phoenicias, he even mentions Olympias and Sciron as local Greek winds ), albeit they appear rather awkwardly when inserted into the contemporary 12-wind compass schema.
14.
He mentions " Circius " as a local wind in Gaul, known for its dizzying, circular motion, and notes its alternate spelling " Cercius " in Hispania ( probably a reference to the Iapygia in Apulia ) and periodic regional Etesian winds and the " Prodromi " ( NW fore-winds, in Greek, " ????????? " ).
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