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boreas

boreas · m

The north wind

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 5.05/10k
Pharsalia 23 · 4.52/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Troades 2 · 2.94/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Georgicon 4 · 2.83/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 3 · 2.66/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bŏrĕas — Lewis & Short

bŏrĕas (borras, ae, m., = *bore/as*borra=s.

Prud. Psych. 847; Paul. Nol. Carm. 17, 245), or

I The north wind; pure Lat aquilo, Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119: ventus Boreas, Nep. Milt. 2, 4: Boreae frigus, Verg. G. 1, 93: tellus boreā rigida spirante, id. ib. 2, 316; id. A. 3, 687: horrifer, Ov. M. 1, 65: praeceps, id. ib. 2, 185; 13, 418; 15, 471; Col. poët. 10, 288; Stat. S. 5, 1, 82.—Acc. Borean, Ov. M. 15, 471; id. F. 2, 147; Luc. 4, 61; 5, 543; 5, 705; 8, 183; 10, 289; Stat. S. 3, 2, 45; id. Th. 7, 6; Manil. 4, 644: Boream, Prop. 2 (3), 26, 51. Claud. Epigr. 9, 3.—

B Meton.

1 The north: Boreae finitimum latus, Hor. C. 3, 24, 38.—

2 Personified, the son of the river-god Strymon, and father of Calais and Zetes by Orithyia, daughter of Erectheus, king of Attica, Ov. M. 6, 682; 6, 711 sq.; Prop. 2, 26, 51 (3, 22, 31).—

II Derivv.

A bŏrī^us or bŏrē^us = bo/reios, pertaining to the north wind, northern: sub axe boreo, Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 41; so Isid. Orig. 3, 32, 1 Lind. N. cr.; 3, 36; 13, 5, 5: frigus, Prisc. Perieg. 271; 315; 789.—Bŏrīon, ii, n., = *bo/reiov: promonturium, *bo/reion a)/kpon, in Cyrenaica, Mel. 1, 7, 5; Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 28.—

B bŏrĕālis, e, northern (rare; perh. only in Avienus): flamina, the north winds, Avien. Phaen. Arat. 951; id. Perieg. 84 and 292.

In the wild

Borean Statius, Thebais 5.15
Boreas Lucan, Pharsalia 2.646
Boreas Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.164
borean Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.471
boreas Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.418
Boreae Propertius, Elegiae 2.27.13

6 of 150 attestations shown.

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