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[206] In this line the parts which we expect to be assigned to the two winds Eurus and Zephyrus are reversed. Elsewhere Zephyrus is represented as stormy and wet (“ἔφυδρος”, see 14. 458), but not as bringing frost or snow. It ripens the fruits in the garden of Alcinous (7. 118), and blows constantly in the Elysian fields (4. 567). On the other hand Eurus is a cold and snowy wind in the Mediterranean lands. It is true that Boreas and Zephyrus are sometimes associated, as in Il.9. 5“Βορέης καὶ Ζέφυρος, τώ τε Θρῄκηθεν ἄητον”, and in Il.23. 195: but this does not make it likely that Zephyrus was a cold wind.

Mr. Myres suggests that the two names should be interchanged: “ἣν Ζέφυρος κατέτηξεν, ἐπεί κ᾽ Εὖρος καταχεύῃ”.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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