584. In LXX of Exod. 27:11; Judith 7:18; Jer. 32:12 (25:26 MT); Ezek. 20:47 (21:3 MT); 21:4 (9 MT); I Macc. 12:37; Aquila, Ezek. 17:10; ' Αλλος , Exod. 14:21 and Judg. 1:9.
585. Margin: "Notos is the wind in the middle between south and east."
586. From ἀπο & + ἀFέλιος (old form of ἥλιος ).
587. I.e., the author says euronotos is called apeliotes in the Scriptures. The word euronotos does not occur in LXX; ἀπηλιώτης occurs as the equivalent of the MT @@ in Exod. 27:11; Jer. 32:12 LXX (25:26 MT); of @@ in Ezek. 20:47 (21:3 MT); 21:4 (9 MT); of @@ in Ezek. 17:10 (Aquila); Exod. 14:21 ( ' Αλλος ).
588. Notos occurs often in LXX. It is the equivalent of @@ in Exod. 10:13 (twice) and 14:21; of @@ in Exod. 26:20; of @@ in Exod. 26:35, etc. A special study of the translation of these terms might be valuable.
589. Acts 27:12. The term is used in LXX as loosely as notos; it stands for @@ in Deut. 33:23; r@@ in II Chron. 32:30 and 33:14; 3:3 in Gen. 13:14; 20:1; 24:62; @@ in Deut. 3:27; Num. 10:6.
590. Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31; Acts 4:3 and 28:23; and many other places.
591. Where?
592. Acts 27:12.
593. Margin: ετησιοι .
594. The word is the Greek αρκτος transliterated. Margin: "arktos, i.e., the wagon," sometimes called Charles's Wain.
595. Liddell and Scott treat this as the normal spelling rather than aparkias.
596. Properly θρασκίας . Liddell and Scott say this wind was probably named from Thrace, and they cite a form Θρᾳκίας . On the ancient names of the winds cf. Theophrastus of Eresus, On Winds and on Weather Signs, trans. J. G. Wood (London, 1894).
597. Skopelos, otherwise Peparethos, was an island off the coast of Magnesia.
598. Patrae, the modern Patras, was an ancient city of Achaia, on the promontory of Rhium.
599. Properly καικίας , Greek term for the northeast wind.
600. Could this term by any possibility be derived from Smyrna?
601. Luke 1:39 f.
602. Lit., "separated."
603. Lagarde correctly regards these two Syriac words as the translation of ὀροθεσία .
604. Singular in Syriac; Abilene and the Decapolis are thought of as a geographical unit and so are referred to by singular pronouns below where we use a plural.
605. I.e., on the Pella side of the Jordan; cf. Eusebius, Onomasticon, ed. Klostermann, p. 80.
606. Eusebius, loc. cit.
607. These three countries or regions are indicated by feminine adjectives.
608. "Of the east" seems altogether superfluous and is relegated to a footnote in Lagarde's edition. It can only mean something like "to the west of its eastern part."