The etesian winds made it impossible to bring up reënforcements, and Cæsar's force was very small.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference

The etesian winds, too, had set in, which made it difficult for his heavy vessels to work out of the harbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caesar: a Sketch] Reference

The vicinity of sea and lake had advantages also in the way of health: for in the summer the etesian winds set in from the north, and the lake, instead of stagnating, was kept full and sweet by the rise of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference

And if at the rising of the Dogstar rain and wintery storms supervene, and if the etesian winds blow, there is reason to hope that these diseases will cease, and that the autumn will be healthy; but if not, it is likely to be a fatal season to children and women, but least of all to old men; and that convalescents will pass into quartans, and from quartans into dropsies; but if the winter be southerly, showery and mild, but the spring northerly, dry, and of a wintry character, in the first place women who happen to be with child, and whose accouchement should take place in spring, are apt to miscarry; and such as bring forth, have feeble and sickly children, so that they either die presently or are tender, feeble, and sickly, if they live.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Airs, Waters, And Places] Reference