An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows west. In Greek mythology, Eurus, the east wind, was the only wind not associated with any of the three Greek seasons, and is the only one of these four Anemoi not mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony or in the Orphic Hymns.
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“From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)