[p. 189] of four in the intervening space about the south and north, in the same way that the second four are placed between the original two at east and west. "There are also some other names of what might be called special winds, which the natives have coined each in their own districts, either from the designations of the places in which they live or from some other reason which has led to the formation of the word. Thus our Gauls 1 call the wind which blows from their land, the most violent wind to which they are exposed, circius, doubtless from its whirling and stormy character; the Apulians give the name Iapyx—the name by which they themselves are known (Iapzyges）—to the wind that blows from the mouth of ᾿ιαπυγία itself, from its inmost recesses, as it were. 2 This is, I think, about the same as caurus; for it is a west wind and seems to blow from the quarter opposite eurus. Therefore Virgil says 3 that Cleopatra, when fleeing to Egypt after the sea-fight, was borne onward by Iapyx, and he called 4 an Apulian horse by the same name as the wind, that is, Iapyx. There is also a wind named caecias, which, according to Aristotle 5 blows in such a way as not to drive away clouds, but to attract them. This, he says, is the origin of the proverbial line: 6
Attracting to oneself, as caecias does the clouds.Moreover, besides these which I have mentioned there are in various places other names of winds, of new coinage and each peculiar to its own region,
