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[21] With ταμίην ἀνέμων compare “ταμίης πολέμοιο Il.4. 84.Aeolus is not in Homer the King of the Winds, as represented by Virgil, Aen. 1. 56, 66; he is only the manager of them by permission of Zeus; and we find Pallas, Calypso, Circe, and others possessed of the power to send a favouring wind when they pleased.

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