Etesiae
（Ἐτησίαι ἄνεμοι, Herod.vi. 140). The Etesian Winds, derived from ἔτος, “year,” signified any periodical winds, but more particularly the northerly winds which blew in the Aegean for forty days from the rising of the dog-star.
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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