Εὖρος
τὰ πρὸ Εὐκλείδου ἐξετάζειν → investigate what happened before the flood, investigate what happened in the distant past, investigate what happened before Euclid, investigate what happened before the year of Euclid
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A the East wind (later, as dist. fr. ἀπηλιώτης, ESE.), Il.2.145, Arist.Mete.363b21, Mu.394b20, IG14.1308, etc. (Connected with ἠώς by Gell.2.22.7, with αὔρα by Vitr.1.6.11. Possibly from εὕω, because parching.)
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Εὖρος: ὁ, ὁ ἀνατολικὸς ἄνεμος ἢ ἀκριβέστερον ΑΝΑ ἄνεμος (πρβλ. ἀπηλιώτης), Λατιν. Eurus, Ἰλ. Β. 145, πρβλ. Ἀριστ. Μετεωρ. 2, 6, 12, π. Κόσμ. 4. 12, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 6180-81. (Πιθανῶς συγγενὲς τῷ ἠώς, αὔως, ἕως, ὁ πρωϊνὸς ἄνεμος ὡς Ζέφυρος συγγενεύει τῷ ζόφος, ὁ ἐσπερινὸς ἄνεμος: πρβλ. ἠώς. Ὁ Κούρτ. ἀναφέρει τὴν λέξιν εἰς τὸ εὔω ἢ εὕω, Σανσκρ. ush, Λατ. uro ἐκ τῆς ξηραντικῆς αὐτοῦ φύσεως, Ἀριστ. Μετεωρ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτέρω).
