Euroclydon
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Euroclydon (or in Template:Langx) is a cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean, mostly in autumn and winter. It is the modern Gregalia (Gregale) or Levanter. From the Template:Langx, from Script error: No such module "Lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning 'east wind') and either the Template:Langx Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning 'north wind'), or kludon (referring to a surging wave from the verb kluzo meaning to billow) or the Template:Langx (Script error: No such module "Lang".). Euroclydon is not to be confused with the term "nor'easter", which is a separate storm system that forms in the northeastern portion of the United States.
Notable references
- In chapter 27 in the Book of Acts 27:14 it may specifically refer to the name of the Gregale wind from the Adriatic Gulf, which wrecked the apostle Paul's ship on the coast of Malta on his way to Rome.[1]
- It is referenced in the second chapter of Moby-Dick.
- Euroclydon is also the name of an anthem by William Billings
- Referenced in "The Roman Centurion's Song" by Rudyard Kipling: "Here where our stiff-necked British oaks confront Euroclydon!"
- Referenced in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Midnight Mass for the Dying Year".[2]
- Referenced in Dorothy L. Sayers' novel The Nine Tailors [3] where after a rainstorm, the Rector uses the phrase from Acts 27:14
References
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- ↑ "But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon."Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". (King James Version) However, later versions, such as the Revised Version, render the Greek word as Euraquilo.
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