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JFavonius, cometh : but from that in Summer, the North- 

 west, Corns: and by the Greeks they are termed Zephyrus 

 and Argestes. From the North bloweth the North Wind, Sep- 

 tentrio: between which and the Sunrising in Summer is the 

 North-east Wind, Aquilo, named Aparctias and Boreas by the 

 Greeks. A greater Reckoning than this for Number is 

 brought in by some, who have thrust in four more between : 

 namely, Thracias between the North and the Summer Setting 

 of the Sun ; in like Manner Ccecias, in the midst between the 

 North-east, Aquilo, and that of the Sunrising in the equi- 

 noctial, Sub-solanus. Also, after the Sunrising in Summer, 

 Phceniceas in the midst, between the South-east and the South. 

 Last of all, between the South and the South-west, Lybo- 

 notus, just in the midst, compounded of them both, namely, 

 between the Meridian and the Sun-setting in Winter. But 

 here they did not end. For others have set one more, called 

 Mese, between the North-east Wind Boreas and Ccecias: also 

 JSuronotuSj between the South and South-west Winds. Besides 

 all these, there be some Winds peculiar to every Nation, 

 and which pass not beyond one certain Region : as, namely, 

 Scyros among the Athenians, declining a little from Argestes; 

 a Wind unknown to other Parts of Greece. In some other 

 Place it is more aloft, and the same then is called Olympias 

 (as coming from the Mountain Olympus). But the usual 

 Manner of Speech understandeth by all these Names Ar- 

 gestes only. Some call Ccecias by the Name of Hellespontias, 

 and give the same Winds in sundry Places divers Names. 

 In the Province, likewise, of Narbonne, the most notorious 

 Wind is Circius, and for violence inferior to none, driving 

 directly before it, very often, the Current at Ostia into the 

 Ligurian Sea. The same Wind is not only unknown in all 

 other Parts of the Heaven, but reacheth not so much as to 

 Vienna, a City in the same Province. As great and bois- 

 terous a Wind as this is otherwise, yet it meets with a Re- 

 straint before it come thither, and is kept within narrow 

 Bounds by the Opposition of a small Hill. Fabianus also 

 avoucheth, that the South Winds enter not so far as into 

 Egypt. Whereby the Law of Nature sheweth itself plainly, 

 that even Winds have their Times and Limits appointed. 



