Greek Texts & Translations

nia, and the Sellae who inhabit the territory around Dodona ^note as far as the [river] Achelous, ^note but he never mentions Thrace, as being beyond these. He has evidently a predilection for the sea which is nearest to him, and with which he is most familiar, as where he says, Commotion shook
The whole assembly, such as heaves the flood
Of the Icarian deep. ^note
Iliad ii. 144. 21

Some writers tell us there are but two principal winds, the north and south, and that the other winds are only a slight difference in the direction of these two. That is, (supposing only two winds, the north and south,) the south wind from the commencement of the summer quarter blows in a south-easterly direction; and from the commencement of the winter quarter from the east. The north wind from the decline of the summer, blows in a westerly direction, and from the decline of the winter, in a north-westerly direction.

In support of this opinion of the two winds they adduce Thrasyalces and our poet himself, forasmuch as he mentions the north-west with the south, From the north-west south, ^note
Iliad xi. 306, xxi. 334. and the west with the north, As when two adverse winds, blowing from Thrace,
Boreas and Zephyrus. ^note
Iliad ix. 5.

But Posidonius remarks that none of those who are really acquainted with these subjects, such as Aristotle, Timosthenes,