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When threatening Jove has loosed the reins of winds and tempests, and sends alternate hurricanes to afflict the world, opposing forces meet in heaven, now Auster’s [the South Wind's] storms prevail, now Aquilo’s [Boreas'], till in the conflict of the winds one conquers, be it Auster’s overwhelming rains, or Aquilo’s clear air.
Statius, Thebaid 8.422
When Boreas blows, then winter grips the land with frost.
Virgil, Georgics 2.316
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Image: J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), in the Tate Gallery, London; image from the California Review.
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