Meanings (ES + gloss)
levante • viento de levante
A personification of the wind from the east.
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall,[…]. E…
[…] I sat down and wrote, / In such a hand as when a field of corn / Bows all its ears before the roaring East; […]
Oriente • oriente
The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.
I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East; […]
¹⁰ In any event, Darius' visitors urged him to "establish the statute and sign the writing, in order for it not to be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, w…
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