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auster , tri, m. Sanscr. ush-, to burn; the burning, hot wind,
I.the south wind (opp. aquilo, the north wind).
I. Lit.: “auster fulmine pollens,” Lucr. 5, 745: “validus,” id. 1, 899; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 15: “vehemens,” Cic. Att. 16, 7: “turbidus,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 4: nubilus. Prop. 3, 8, 56: umidus, bringing or producing rain, Verg. G. 1, 462; so, “pluvius,” Ov. M. 1, 66: “frigidus,” Verg. G. 4, 261, and Prop. 3, 22, 16: hibernus. Tib. 1, 1, 47; Vulg. Cant. 4, 16; ib. Luc. 12, 25 et saep.—
II. Meton., the south country, the south: “in aquilonis austrive partibus,” Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22; so Varr. L. L. 9, § 25 Müll.; Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 43; Vulg. Exod. 26, 16; ib. Matt. 12, 42.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 16.7
    • New Testament, Matthew, 12.42
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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 2.43
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