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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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