Favonius seized the nymph Chloris as she fled through the spring fields, took her as his bride, and gave her dominion over flowers — transforming her into Flora, who scattered blossoms wherever she walked.
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.
Favonius is the Roman counterpart of the Greek Zephyrus, both personifying the west wind, though Roman tradition emphasized his agricultural significance over mythological narrative.
In Apuleius's Metamorphoses, Favonius carried Psyche from the mountaintop where she had been abandoned to the hidden valley where Cupid's golden palace awaited her, gently lowering her onto a bed of flowers.
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