writes when describing steppe winter weather near the Sea of Azov: Lips is the Greek deity of the southwest wind, often depicted holding the stern of a ship. His Roman equivalent was Africus, due to the Roman province Africa being to the southwest of Italy. This name is thought to be derived from the name of a North African tribe, the Afri. Other minor wind deities included: Argestes "clearing", a wind blowing from about the same direction as Skiron (Caurus), and probably another name for it Aparctias, sometimes called the north wind instead of Boreas Thrascias, the north-northwest wind (sometimes called in Latin Circius) Euronotus, the wind blowing from the direction, as its name suggests, between Euros and Notus, that is, a south-southeast wind (Euroauster to the Romans) Iapyx, the northwest wind about the same as Caurus. It was this wind, according to Virgil, that carried the fleeing Cleopatra home to Egypt after she was defeated at the battle of Actium. Libonotus, the south-southwest wind, known as Austro-Africus to the Romans Meses, another name for the northwest wind Olympias, apparently identified with Skiron/Argestes Phoenicias, another name for the southeast wind ('the one blowing from Phoenicia', due to this land lying to the southeast of Greece) See also Anemometer, modern device to measure wind Bacab Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri Vayu List of wind deities References Further reading Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive. Aristotle, Meteorologica, 2.6 Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, 2. 22 Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. . Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library. March, J. (1999). Cassell's Dictionary Of Classical Mythology. London. . Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff.