[Meaning] that of a zephyr.[1] Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Zephyrian breath".[2] For Zephyr [is] a gentle wind.[3]
*zefuri/a pnoh/: tou= zefu/rou. kai\ *zefu/rion pneu=ma. *ze/furos ga\r lei=os a)/nemos.
In this era Zephyros (for which cf.
pi 1632) is any westerly wind: see LSJ s.v.
[1] From a scholion on
Homer,
Odyssey 7.119, where a similar phrase (
*Zefuri/h pnei/ousa) occurs. See also
Hesychius zeta132, glossing
*zefuri/h as
h( pnoh\ tou= *zefu/rou.
[2] Likewise in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the
Ambrosian Lexicon. This phrase is presumably quoted from somewhere.
[3] Comparably (in broad terms) in other lexica, but no exact parallel. For a wind described as
leios cf.
pneu=ma lei=on in a sailing metaphor in
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1002.
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