etesian in a sentence

• A Mediterranean climate is sometimes called an etesian climate.
• Two male figures soaring in flight above the divine triad represent the propitious Etesian winds that blow during the summer.
• Philip finally began his campaign against the Chalkidian league in 349 BC, probably in July, when the Etesian winds would prevent Athens sending aid.
• During the summer months, strong northerly winds blow into the Aegean Sea ( the Etesian winds ), making it difficult for the Athenians to send ships north.
• The word " etesian " ultimately derives from the trough of low pressure into the Eastern Mediterranean region that enforces, if not causes, the etesians to blow in summer.
• The Athenians prepared to send a force of citizen hoplites, but they were delayed by the weather, probably due to the Etesian winds, and arrive too late to achieve anything.
• Historically, Philip II of Macedon timed his military operations so that powerful southern fleets could not reach him : their ships could sail north only very slowly while the Etesian winds were blowing.
• Philip was to make repeated use of the Etesian winds, campaigning during those months ( or in winter ), when the Athenian navy would be unable to send assistance to his enemies.
• Confusing matters, in a later chapter, Pliny goes on to say that Aquilo, in the summer, turns into the Etesian winds, the periodic wind already referred to by Aristotle.
• The island normally experiences steady breezes ( average 3 5 m / s ) throughout the year, with winds direction predominantly northerly ( " Etesian " Wind locally called the " Meltemi " ), or south westerly ( Sirocco ).
• It's difficult to see etesian in a sentence .
• And sailors set out thither with the Indian Etesian winds, about the, month of July, that is Epiphi : it is more dangerous then, but through these winds the voyage is more direct, and sooner completed ."
• When the miscreants were found out and executed, and a shrine erected to Zeus Ikmaios, the great god was propitiated and decreed that henceforth the Etesian wind should blow and cool all the Aegean for forty days from the baleful rising of Sirius.
• It is apparent Pliny had recently read Aristotle and sought to resurrect some of the abandoned Aristotelean names ( Boreas / Aparctias, Meses, Etesian winds, Phoenicias, he even mentions Olympias and Sciron as local Greek winds ), albeit they appear rather awkwardly when inserted into the contemporary 12-wind compass schema.
• He mentions " Circius " as a local wind in Gaul, known for its dizzying, circular motion, and notes its alternate spelling " Cercius " in Hispania ( probably a reference to the Iapygia in Apulia ) and periodic regional Etesian winds and the " Prodromi " ( NW fore-winds, in Greek, " ????????? " ).