They insisted on extracting out of the actual 'Euroclydon,' the imaginary name 'Euro-aquilo,' which accordingly stands to this day in the Vulgate.

(Not that Jerome himself so read the name of the wind, or he would hardly have explained '_Eurielion_' or '_Euriclion_' to mean 'commiscens, sive deorsum ducens[77].') Of this feat of theirs, Codexes [Symbol: Aleph] and A (in which [Greek: EUROKLUDON] has been perverted into [Greek: EURAKULON]) are at this day _the sole surviving Greek witnesses_.

Well may the evidence for 'Euro-aquilo' be scanty! The fabricated word collapses the instant it is examined.

Nautical men point out that it is 'inconsistent in its construction with the principles on which the names of the intermediate or compound winds are framed:'-- '_Euronotus_ is so called as intervening immediately between _Eurus_ and _Notus_, and as partaking, as was thought, of the qualities of both.

The same holds true of _Libonotus_, as being interposed between _Libs_ and _Notus_.