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Q. Names of the 4 Winds - What Were the Names the Romans Used for the Winds?

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The Romans personified the winds giving names to them corresponding with the four cardinal directions.

A. The winds were named:

Boreas - North Wind
Auster - South Wind
Eurus - East Wind
Zephyr - West Wind

Among other places, they are named in Ovid's Metamorphoses I.61-66.

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