Book 2
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"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 That is, the Gauls of Gallia Narbonensis. Favorinus was a native of Arelate, the modern Aries. 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 )Iapugi/a itself, from its inmost recesses, as it were. Text and meaning are very uncertain. No satisfactory explanation of ore or sinibus has been offered, so far as I know. Apuleius, De Mundo 14, says: Apuli Iapagem eum venture ) ex Iapygae sinu, id est ex ipso Gargano venientem (appellant). 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 Aen. viii. 709. that Cleopatra, when fleeing to Egypt after the sea-fight, was borne onward by Iapyx, and he called Aen. xi. 678. an Apulian horse by the same name as the wind, that is, Iapyx. There is also a wind named caecias, which, according to Aristotle Meteor. ii. 6; Prob. xxvi. 29. 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: Trag. fr. adesp. 75, Nauck.2 Attracting to oneself, as caecias does the clouds.
