Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.”
—Goldsmith, Deserted Village.
[5:29.] Eurus. The east wind. It is the poet’s way to single out one wind and use it as general word for winds. One example of the use of the specific for the generic.
[5:33.] Routs.
“Thou frownest, and old Æolus thy foe
Skulks to his cavern, ’mid the gruff complaint
Of all his rebel tempests. Dark clouds faint
When, from thy diadem, a silver gleam
Slants over blue dominion.”
—Keats, Endymion.