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Auster

Called Notus by the Greeks, the south wind, or strictly the southwest wind. It frequently brought with it fogs and rain; but at certain seasons of the year it was a dry, sultry wind, injurious both to man and to vegetation, the Sirocco of the modern Italians.

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