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EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, east wind; KM)...

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 906 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, east wind; KM)bwv,
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wave)
  , a stormy wind from the N.E. or N.N.E. in the eastern Mediterranean . Where the Authorized Version of the Bible (Acts
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xxvii . 14) mentions euroclydon, the Revised Version, taking the
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reading evpasVXwv, has euraquilo, or north-
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easter . The word is sometimes used for the
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Bora (q.v.) .

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