AEolus

I should naturally think, as you do, that this session will be a stormy one, that is, if Mr. Pitt takes an active part; but if he is pleased, as the Ministers say, there is no other AEolus to blow a storm.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

When it shall choose, my good man, or when it shall please AEolus; for God has not made you the manager of the winds, but AEolus.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

In the summer-time this hero always slung his hammock here, with plenty of wind to rock him off to sleep, but in winter King AEolus himself could not have borne it.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Ulysses arrives at the island of AEolus, who gives him prosperous winds, and incloses the adverse ones in a bag, which his companions untying, they are driven back again and rejected.

The Odyssey of Homer 2003

Henceforth he saw that the violence of men would rival the rising elements, for the deeds of this night would stir their passions as AEolus was rousing the hate of the sea.

The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Descrying him and his Trojans in sight of Italy, she bribes AEolus to raise a storm for their destruction

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

THE popular beliefs of classic antiquity regarding storms, thunder, and lightning, took shape in myths representing Vulcan as forging thunderbolts, Jupiter as flinging them at his enemies, AEolus intrusting the winds in a bag to AEneas, and the like.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

Lord Mansfield with his cheeks like to burst: Lord Chatham like an AEolus.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

The hours pass, the shadows lengthen, the sheep-bells clang; and I lie in my niche under the stunted hawthorn watching the to and fro of the sea, and AEolus shepherding his white sheep across the blue.

The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

She recounted the various attempts of the unforgiving queen to destroy the Trojans -- how AEolus at her bidding had sent his storms to scatter the fleet of AEneas, how Iris, her messenger, had induced the

Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880