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etesian
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Etesian \E*te"sian\, a. [L. etesiae, pl., periodic winds, Gr. ?, fr. ? year: cf. F. ['e]t['e]sien.] Periodical; annual; -- applied to winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period ...
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The etesians ( or ; ; sometimes found in the Latin form etesiae ), meltemia (; pl. of meltemi ), or meltem ( Turkish ) are the strong, dry north winds of the Aegean Sea , which blow from about mid-May to mid-September. According to C. Michael Hogan , the ...
Usage examples of etesian.
The French squadron took the direction of Candia, which we perceived on the 25th of June, and afterwards stood to the south, favoured by the Etesian winds, which regularly prevail at that season.
And at dawn the Etesian winds blew strongly, which by the command of Zeus blow over every land equally.
And on this account it is that Etesian winds from Zeus cool the land for forty days, and in Ceos even now the priests offer sacrifices before the rising of the Dog-star.
The Etesian winds have begun to blow, so he should be here in two days.
The following day, the Ides of October, the Etesian winds arrived with the dawn.
The empty grain fleets came down from Ostia, Puteoli and Neapolis on the Etesian winds, and by the time the harvest was in and the ships loaded, Auster the south wind blew the fleets back to Italy.
The Greek and Latin historians do not speak favourably of it, and Strabo says it is very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season.
His armour was patched up of a thousand incoherent pieces, and the sound of it, as he marched, was loud and dry, like that made by the fall of a sheet of lead, which an Etesian wind blows suddenly down from the roof of some steeple.
Osiris as symbols referring to four things, the subsidence of the Nile into his channel, the cessation of the delicious Etesian winds before the hot blasts of the South, the encroachment of the lengthening night on the shortening day, the disappearance of the bloom of summer before the barrenness of winter.