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The east wind. So called, says Buttmann, from eös, the east. Probably it is eos eruʹo, drawn from the east. Ovid confirms this etymology: “Vires capit Eurus ab ortu.” Breman says it is a corruption of εωρoζ.
“While southern gales or western oceans roll,
And Eurus steals his ice-winds from the pole.”
Darwin: Economy of Vegetation, canto vi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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