A.westerly wind, “Βορέης καὶ Ζ., τώ τε Θρῄκηθεν ἄητον” Il.9.5: coupled with Νότος, 21.334; opp. Εὖρος, Od.5.332, 19.206; Ζ. δυσαής, ἔφυδρος, 5.295, 14.458; “ψυχρός” Arist.Pr.946a17; but εὐδιεινὸς καὶ ἥδιστος ib.943b21; “ὁπότε νέφεα Ζ. στυφελίξῃ” Il.11.305; ἅμα πνοιῇ Ζεφύροιο θέοιμεν, of horses, 19.415; later, the due West wind, opp. ἀπηλιώτης, Arist.Mete.363b12, cf.Mu.394b26; but rather northwest in Id.Pol.1290a19. (Prob. cogn. with ζόφος, cf. ζοφόπνοια.)
Ζέφυ^ρος , ὁ, any
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
How to enter text in Greek:
