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After no long time (met' ou polu). Litotes again.
Beat down from it (ebalen kat' autēs). Second aorist active indicative of ballō, to throw. Here “dashed” (intransitive). Autēs is in the ablative, not genitive case, beat “down from it” (Crete), not “against it or on it.” (Robertson, Grammar, p. 606). Autēs cannot refer to ploion (boat) which is neuter. So the ablative case with kata as in Mar 5:13, Homer also. The Cretan mountains are over 7,000 feet high.
A tempestuous wind which is called Euraquilo (anemos tuphōnikos ho kaloumenos Eurakulōn). Tuphōn̂Tuphōs was used for the typhoon, a violent whirlwind (turbo) or squall. This word gives the character of the wind. The Eurakulōn (reading of Aleph A B against the Textus Receptus Eurokludōn) has not been found elsewhere. Blass calls it a hybrid word compounded of the Greek euros (east wind) and the Latin aquilo (northeast). It is made like euronotos (southeast). The Vulgate has euroaquilo. It is thus the east north east wind. Page considers Euroclydon to be a corruption of Euraquilo. Here the name gives the direction of the wind.