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Nam modo purpureo vires capit Eurus ab ortu:

Nunc Zephyrus, ero'vepere mius, adet

Nunc gelidus ficca Boreas bacchatur ab Arcto Nunc Notus advera prælia fronte gerit. Trit. lib. i. El. ii. ver. 25.

They eem to have been firt incommoded by the North-Wetwind, called in that country Thracias, or by the Greeks Sciron. This probably brought the thunder and lightning, which Mr. Stuart, in his account of the winds on the Temple of Andronicus Cyrrhetes at Athens, tells us, is the ditinguihing character of this wind. It came however about to the South, and from thence to the South-Wet, o that in the coure of the tempet the wind hifted to every point of the compas, like the torm above decribed by Ovid.

The harbour of Athenae Ponticæ proved however a ufficient protection for mot of the hips; and the trireme, which rode out the torm, under ihelter of a rock, perhaps owed its afety to the promontory, mentioned by Ptolemy. They however ued the precaution to draw many of their hips ahore in the manner, in which the Grecian fleet is decribed by Homer; which eems to have been the means of their preervation, but implied that their draught of water, and conequently their ability to fail near the wind, was but mall. It eems however, from an expreion