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  • Notus pro rhetorice et accusatione inexoribile proconsulum infamum erat.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009

  • In 1999, Shawn Cooper, 15, of Notus, Idaho, took a shotgun to school and injured one student.

    Cable News' War Against America; Time to Fight Back 2007

  • In 1999, Shawn Cooper, 15, of Notus, Idaho, took a shotgun to school and injured one student.

    Cable News' War Against America; Time to Fight Back 2007

  • Then trust in the winds without care, and haul your swift ship down to the sea and put all the freight on board; but make all haste you can to return home again and do not wait till the time of the new wine and autumn rain and oncoming storms with the fierce gales of Notus who accompanies the heavy autumn rain of Zeus and stirs up the sea and makes the deep dangerous.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • The two men walked away, Dr. Fell marching with his stiff step (almost like a goose) and Notus, with many a glance back at me across his shoulder.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • It borders on Notus, and so we often find that people speak of ‘Euro-Noti’.

    Meteorology 2002

  • Notus blowing from O is its contrary; for this point is the south and O is contrary to H, being diametrically opposite to it.

    Meteorology 2002

  • Cinesias [running away] "... now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether."

    The Birds 2000

  • [The winds were] "Boreas or Aquilo, the north wind; Zephyrus or Favonius, the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east." -- p. 176.

    The Annotated "Franklin's Tower" Robert Hunter 1975

  • CINESIAS "... now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether."

    The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

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