Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
could not bear up into—"face"
the wind, we let her drift—before the gale.
a tempestuous—"typhonic"
wind—that is, like a typhon or tornado, causing a whirling of the clouds, owing to the meeting of opposite currents of air.
called Euroclydon—The true reading appears to be Euro-aquilo, or east-northeast, which answers all the effects here ascribed to it.
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