aquiloni
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aquilo, aquilonis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
north wind; NNE/NE wind (for Rome); north; Boreas (personified);
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pendet, uento cui concidat, aequor.sed Scythici uicit rabies Aquilonis et undastorsit et abstrusas penitus uada fecit harenas.nec perfert..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nocturnas exaequat lucibus umbras; nam medio cursu flatus aquilonis et austri distinet aequato caelum discrimine metas propter signiferi..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...media nocte togatus ero Stridentesque feram flatus aquilonis iniqui Et patiar nimbos excipiamque nives. Sed si non fias..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...flexum; quod iter non daret uentus. Deinde si aquilonis illos impetus a terris in altum leuaret, aliis uentis..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...seruit hoc Austro latus; at qua niuosi patitur Aquilonis minas, Euripus undas flectit instabilis uagas septemque cursus uoluit..."
Liber Octavus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...stat caeli diuersa acies, nunc fortior Austri, nunc Aquilonis hiems, donec pugnante procella aut nimiis hic uicit aquis..."Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...tempestas aeterna plagae praetentaque caelo agmina nimborum primique Aquilonis hiatus in diuersa ferunt: crepat aurea grandine multa palla..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...excoquere et magnos scrobibus concidere montis, ante supinatas Aquiloni ostendere glaebas quam laetum infodias uitis genus. optima putri..."