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10 saying, “Men, I perceive that this voyage will end with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also our lives.”
11 Nevertheless the centurion was more persuaded by the helmsman and the owner of the ship than by the things spoken by Paul.
12 And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to set sail from there also, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete opening toward the southwest and northwest, and winter there.

In the Tempest

13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their desire, putting out to sea, they sailed close by Crete.
14 But not long after, a tempestuous head wind arose, called1 Euroclydon.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Acts 27:12

Might attain to Phoenice - It appears that the Fair Havens were at the eastern end of the island, and they wished to reach Phoenice, which lay farther towards the west.

Toward the south-west and north-west - . The libs certainly means the south-west, called libs , from Libya, from which it blows to. wards the Aegean Sea. The chorus , or caurus , means a north-west wind. Virgil mentions this, Geor. iii. ver. 356.

\ri720 Semper hyems, semper spirantes frigora cauri .

"It is always winter; and the cauri, the north-westers, ever blowing cold."

Dr. Shaw lays down this, and other winds, in a Greek compass, on his map, in which he represents the drifting of St. Paul' s vessel from Crete, till it was wrecked at the island of Melita. Travels, p. 331, 4to. edit.


 
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