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Aeolus

noun
1.
God of the winds in ancient mythology.






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"Aeolus" Quotes from Famous Books



... on Chwastowski. The peppery old gentleman, who probably was caned often enough over his Homer, had evidently not forgotten the Odyssey, nor his ready speech either, for he replied to my aunt that if he were AEolus he would not serve her as agent, and bear with her unjust tantrums. My aunt gave way this time, merely because of the redoubled threats from the skies. It had grown very still all at once, but from the south, banks of cloud, black ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz

... her, Halcyone sprang from her couch and ran again to the seashore. She stretched out her arms and called aloud to Aeolus, the father of ...
— Stories of Birds • Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

... of the Cyclopes they came next to the AEolian island, where dwelt AEolus with his wife and twelve sons and daughters. The island floated on the sea, and all around it tall cliffs ran sheer down to the water, crowned on their summit by a wall of brass. Here they remained a whole month, and were hospitably entertained by AEolus, revelling in the abundance ...
— Stories from the Odyssey • H. L. Havell

... ruin of our isle! And see, (strange sight!) amid that ruffian band, A form divine high wave her snowy hand; That rattles loud a small enchanted box, Which, loud as thunder, on the board she knocks. And as fierce storms, which earth's foundation shook, From AEolus's cave impetuous broke, From this small cavern a mix'd tempest flies, Fear, rage, convulsion, tears, oaths, blasphemies! For men, I mean,—the fair discharges none; She (guiltless creature!) swears ...
— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young

... place; they are all connected with the tale of Troy: such are the seclusion of Achilles in Scyrus, the madness of Odysseus, the solitude of Philoctetes, with the whole story of Odysseus's wanderings, of Circe and Telegonus, of Aeolus, controller of the winds, down to the vengeance wreaked upon the suitors of Penelope; and, earlier, Odysseus's plot against Palamedes, the resentment of Nauplius, the frenzy of the one Ajax, the destruction of the other ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata

... owing to the foolish curiosity of his shipmates, who, while Ulysses lay asleep, had untied some very bulky leathern bags, in which they supposed a valuable treasure to be concealed. But in each of these stout bags, King AEolus, the ruler of the winds, had tied up a tempest, and had given it to Ulysses to keep, in order that he might be sure of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca; and when the strings were loosened, forth rushed the whistling blasts, like air out of ...
— The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) • Various



Words linked to "Aeolus" :   Greek deity, Aeolian



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