favonie
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Favonius, Favonii:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
west wind;; hair dryer;
voc. sg.
Examples
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...patefactast verna diei et reserata viget genitabilis aura favoni, aeriae primum volucris te, diva, tuumque significant initum perculsae..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Austri flatus opposita est neque ad Favoni nec saevi Boreae aut Apheliotae, verum ad milia quindecim et ducentos..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...manat tellure bitumen; utve sub adventu spirantis lene favoni sole remollescit quae frigore constitit unda; sic lacrimis consumpta..."