[Meaning] a wind [produced] out of clouds.
*)eknefi/as: e)k nefw=n a)/nemos.
Same or similar entry in other lexica.
The headword adjective is very frequent in Aristotelian meteorological and astronomical works: see e.g.
Meteorologica 365a1-3, 366b33
passim;
De Mundo 384b18;
Problemata 940b30; cf. Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentary on Aristotle's Meteorologica 113.15
passim. See also
Chrysippus in the
scholia to Hesiod,
Theogony 148. A detailed definition of this kind of winds is provided by
Posidonius fr.337a, lines 9ff. For an occurrence in comic poetry see
Alexis fr. 46.5 Kock = 47.5 K.-A.
A different specific meaning, peculiar to medical texts, is illustrated by Galen,
Linguarum seu dictionum exoletarum Hippocratis explicatio, vol 19.96.5 Kuehn, where
e)knefi/as o)/mbros is "the rain coming with sun" (evidently mentioned for its influence on human health: cf.
Oribasius 10.9.1), while the
e)knefi/as pureto\s is defined as
o( u(gro\s a(/ma kai\ purw/dhs "the fever at the same time humid and burning".
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