1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Etesiae

The Etesian Winds, derived from the Greek word meaning "year," signified any periodical winds, but more particularly the northerly winds which blow in the Aegean for forty days from the rising of the dog star.

Etruria or Tuscia. Called by the Greeks Tyrrhenia or Tyrsenia. A country in central Italy. Euboea (Negropont). The largest island of the Aegean Sea, about ninety miles in length, lying along the coasts of Attica, Boeotia, and the southern part of Thessaly, from which countries it is separated by the Euboean Sea, called the Euripus in its narrowest part.

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