Boreas

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  1. The god of the wind|North Wind, Storms, Winter, Ice and Snow .

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  3. (quote-book)''. ''(w)'' calls him the King of Winds. numbers omitted.

  4. (quote-book) Orithya, therefore, becoming enthusiastic, being poſſeſſed by her proper God Boreas, and no longer energizing as a human being (for animals ceaſe to energize according to their own peculiarities, when poſſeſſed by ſuperior causes), died under the inſpiring influence, and thus was ſaid to have been raviſhed by Boreas.

  5. (quote-book), 7.189) A tradition (λέγεται δε λόγος) held that the Athenians prayed to the god before the battle to assist them, the equivalent of the prebattle encounter between Pan and (w). As in the complaint of Pan, the god Boreas was remembered as assisting the Greeks before, in this case by having sent a storm off (w) during the expedition under Mardonios (6.44.2).

  6. (quote-book), the new (w) in (w). In more concrete terms, in 397 (smallcaps) I of Syracuse|Dionysius of Syracuse, at war with the Carthage|Carthaginians, launched an expedition of three hundred ships crammed with armed men – hoplites, men of bronze – against Thurii. The North Wind was blowing against them, and Boreas wrecked the ship. It was a disaster for Dionysius, but the citizens of Thurii, saved by the god Boreas, passed a decree granting citizenship to the wind.

  7. The north wind personified.

  8. 1579, Immeritô (w), ''(w): Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. (w)'', London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto (w) at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, (w) 606515406; republished in James Child|Francis James Child, editor, ''The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three'', volume III, Boston, Mass.: Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Publishing|The Riverside Press, Massachusetts|Cambridge, published 1855, (w) 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

  9. Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
  10. (quote-book) frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. to (w) (1616–1704).

  11. (quote-book), (w) and (w), transl.|title=Re Aedificatoria|On the Art of Building in Ten Books|location=Cambridge, Mass.; London|publisher=MIT Press|year=1991|page=427|isbn=978-0-262-01099-3|passage="Timber felled in winter, when ''Boreas'' is blowing, will burn beautifully and almost without smoke" (2.4.39 24). (..) "Face all the summer rooms the villa to receive ''Boreas''" (5.18.153 91v); and "It is best to make libraries face ''Boreas''" (9.10.317 174v).