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.”