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PLIKT^S KATUEAL HISTOBT. 
[Book I*. 
and Libs. Erom tlie equinoctial setting proceeds FavoniusS 
and from tlie solstitial setting, Corns ^ ; these were named 
Zephyrus and Argestes. Prom the seven stars comes Sep- 
temtrio, between which and the solstitial rising we have 
Aqnilo, named Aparctias and Boreas^. By a more minute 
subdivision we interpose four others, Thrascias, between 
Septemtrio and the solstitial setting ; Csecias, between Aquilo 
and the equinoctial rising ; and Phoenices, between the brumal 
rising and the south. And also, at an equal distance from 
the south and the winter setting, between Libs and Notes, 
and compounded of the two, is Libonotos. Nor is this all. 
Por some persons have added a wind, which they have named 
Meses, between Boreas and Csecias, and one between Eurus 
and Notes, named Euronotus"^. 
There are also certain winds peculiar to certain countries, 
which do not extend beyond certain districts, as Sciron in 
Attica, deviating a little from Argestes, and not known in 
the other parts of Grreece. In other places it is a little 
higher on the card and is named Olympias ; but all these 
^ " quia favet rebus nascentibus." 
2 " . . . . semper spirantes fi-igora Cauri." Yirgil, Greor. iii. 356. 
^ The eight winds here mentioned will bear the following relation to 
our nomenclatiu-e : Septemtrio, N. ; Aquilo, N.E. ; Subsolanus, E. ; Yul- 
turnus, S.E. ; Auster, S. ; Africus, N.W. ; Eavonius, W. ; and Corns, 
N.W. 
^ The four wmds here mentioned, added to eight others, making, m 
the whole, twelve, will give us the following card ^ — 
N. Septemtrio. S. Notos or Auster. 
N.N.E. Boreas or Aquilo. S.S.W. Libonotos. 
E.N.E. Cgecias. W.S.W. Libs or Africus. 
E. Apehotes or Subsolanus. W. Zephyrus or Eavonius. 
E.S.E. Eiu"us or Yulturnus. W.N.W. Argestes or Corns. 
S.S.E'. EuTonotus or Phoenices. N.N.W. Thrascias. 
We are informed by Alexandre, Lemaire, i. 330, that there is an an- 
cient dial plate in the Yatican, consisting of twelve sides, in which the 
names of the twelve winds are given both in Greek and in Latin. They 
differ somewhat from those given above, both absolutely and relatively ; 
they are as foUows : — 
'ATTapKTLas, Septemtrio. NoVos, Auster. 
Bopeas, Aquilo. At/3oVoros, AustroaMcus. 
KaiKi'a?, Yulturnus. Ai^, Africus. 
*A0j?Xtwrj]§, Solanus. Ze^upos, Zephyrus. 
Evpos, Eurus. 'idnv^, Corns. 
EvpovoTos, Euronotu«. QpacKias^ Circius. 
