Aquilo’s Connections

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Member of

• Venti

  The Venti are the four Roman wind gods: Favonius (west), Aquilo (north), Auster (south), and Volturnus (east), each governing a cardinal direction's wind. Virgil and Ovid invoke them collectively in descriptions of storms and seasonal change.

Equivalent to

• Boreas(Greek)

  Aquilo is the Roman counterpart of the Greek Boreas, both personifying the fierce north wind. Ovid uses the names interchangeably in the Metamorphoses when narrating myths of the north wind's violent nature.

Associated with

• Jupiter

  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Jupiter assigned Aquilo his domain in Scythia and the frozen north when parceling out the regions of the world to the winds during the creation of the cosmos.