. nd foundthem feasting in the palace of Zephyrus inThrace. Boreas and Zephyrus thereuponstraightway crossed the Thracian sea into Asia,to cause the fire to blaze. (17. xxiii. 195; 145, ix. 5 ; Od. v. 295.) According to Hesiod,the beneficial winds, Notus, Boreas, Argestes,and Zephyrus, were the sons of Astraeus andEos; and the destructive ones are said to be thesons of Typhoeus (Hes. Th. 378, 869). The 992 VENTI VENUS beneficial nature of Boreas does not, however,always appear, and his stormy character, re-sembling that of Typ
. nd foundthem feasting in the palace of Zephyrus inThrace. Boreas and Zephyrus thereuponstraightway crossed the Thracian sea into Asia,to cause the fire to blaze. (17. xxiii. 195; 145, ix. 5 ; Od. v. 295.) According to Hesiod,the beneficial winds, Notus, Boreas, Argestes,and Zephyrus, were the sons of Astraeus andEos; and the destructive ones are said to be thesons of Typhoeus (Hes. Th. 378, 869). The 992 VENTI VENUS beneficial nature of Boreas does not, however,always appear, and his stormy character, re-sembling that of Typhon, seems to be indicatedby his representation with serpents feet on thechest of Cypselus (Paus. v. 19, 1). Later, espe-cially philosophical, writers endeavoured todefine the winds more accurately, according totheir places in the compass. Thus Aristotle,besides the four principal winds (Boreas orAparctias, Eurus, Notus, and Zephyrus,mentions three, the Meses, Kaikias, and Ape-liotes, between Boreas and Eurus; betweenEurus and Notus he places the Phoenicias;. Notus. between Notus and Zephyrus he has only theLips ; and between Zephyrus and Boreas heplaces the Argestes (Olympias or Skiron) andthe Thraskias (Ar. Meteor, ii. 6).—The windswere represented by poets and artists in differentways ; the latter usually represented them asbeings with wings at their heads and most remarkable monument representingthe winds is the octagonal tower of AndronicusCyrrhestes at Athens. Each of the eight sidesof the monument represents one of the eightprincipal winds in a flying attitude. A move-able Triton in the centre of the cupola pointedwith his staff to the wind blowing at the these eight figures have wings at theirshoulders, all are clothed, and the peculiarities
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