Euroclydon - Encyclopedia

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

EUROCLYDON (Gr. eupos, east wind; Xi 3wv, wave), a stormy wind from the N.E. or N.N.E. in the eastern Mediterranean. Where the Authorized Version of the Bible (Acts xxvii. 14) mentions euroclydon, the Revised Version, taking the reading evpaKiJXcev, has euraquilo, or north-easter. The word is sometimes used for the Bora.