Obs. [L. Eurus, a. Gr. Εὖρος the east wind (more correctly ESE.).] The east-wind, ESE. or SE.; the god of the east-wind. Now only Mythol. or in poet. personification.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., C. 133. Eurus & Aquiloun … Blowes boþe at my bode vpon blo watteres.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XI. iii. (1495), 386. Eurus that is the South este wynde.
1606. Peacham, Graphice (1612), 131 (J.). Eurus … must be drawn with puffed and blowne cheekes, wings vppon his shoulders, and his body the colour of the tawny Moone.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 705. Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent Winds, Eurus and Zephir.
1727. Pope, etc. Art of Sinking, 120. Recipe for a tempest. Take eurus, zephyr, auster and boreas, and cast them together in one verse.
1775. in Ash.
1828. in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
