Auster’s Connections

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• 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.

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• Notus(Greek)

  Notus and Auster are the Greek and Roman gods of the south wind. Virgil uses Auster and Notus interchangeably in the Aeneid to describe the rain-bearing south wind.