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The north wind. According to mythology, he was the son of Astræus, a Titan, and Eos, the morning, and lived in a cave of Mount Hæmus, in Thrace. (Greek, boros, voracious; Bôreas, the north wind; Russian, boria, storm.)
“Cease, rude Boreas! blustering railer.”
Geo. Alex. Stevens.
“Omnia pontus haurit saxa vorax,”
Lucan.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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