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"Feed on [light] breezes, fostering your young soul." That is, on a light and tender life. From a metaphor of plants, which are not able to endure anything severe, neither heat nor wind. Ajax says [this] to his child.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] ἐκκουφίσας ["he having weighed anchor"], meaning he having arrived, he having sailed out. "Dionysios by name, merchant by profession, having often made many long sea-voyages, as profit stimulated him, and having weighed anchor beyond Maiotis,[2] purchases a Colchian girl, who had been kidnapped by the Makhlues, a tribe of the local barbarians."[3]

Κούφοις πνεύμασι βόσκου, νέαν ψυχὴν ἀτάλλων. τουτέστι κούφῃ καὶ ἁπαλῇ ζωῇ. ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν φυτῶν, ἅτινα οὐδὲν σφοδρὸν δύναται φέρειν, οὔτε καύσωνα οὔτε ἄνεμον. ὁ Αἴας φησὶ πρὸς τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ. καὶ Ἐκκουφίσας, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀφικόμενος, ἐκπλεύσας. Διονύσιος τοὔνομα, ἔμπορος τὸ ἐπιτήδευμα, δολιχεύσας πολλάκις πολλοὺς πλοῦς, τοῦ κέρδους ὑποθήγοντος, καὶ περαιτέρω τῆς Μαιώτιδος ἐκκουφίσας ὠνεῖται κόρην Κόλχον, ἣν ἐληί̈σαντο Μάχλυες, ἔθνος τῶν ἐκεῖ βαρβάρων.

[1] Sophocles, Ajax 558-9 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. alpha 4317.
[2] The Sea of Azov: mu 344.
[3] Aelian fr. 74c Domingo-Forasté (71 Hercher); cf. epsilon 2681, delta 1337.

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