favonie
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Favonius, Favonii:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
west wind;; hair dryer;
voc. sg.
Examples
- T
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..." - G
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..." - P
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..."