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[469] αὔρη ἐκ ποταμοῦ. Ameis compares Livy 21. 54 ‘quicquid aurae fluminis appropinquabant, afflabat acrior frigoris vis.’ Herodotus, 2. 27, remarks as a peculiarity that the Nile has no “αὔρη” blowing from it.

ἠῶθι πρό. Compare “Ἰλιόθι πρό” Od.8. 581, “οὐρανόθι πρό” Il.3. 3; in each case “πρό” is adverbial, in the two latter cases having a local meaning = ‘at Ilium, in front thereof,’ etc. In the combination ἠῶθι πρό the adverb lends a temporal epexegesis = ‘in the morning, early.’ So “πρό” is used adverbially, Il.13. 799“πρὸ μέν τ᾽ ἄλλ̓, αὐτὰρ ἔπ᾽ ἄλλα”, Il.19. 118“πρὸ φόωσδε”. A converse usage is “ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν” Od.11. 18.

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

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