Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Auster

Called Notus (Νότος) 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. The name auster is from the root found in the Latin uro, “to burn.”