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ăquĭlo, ōnis, m. [perh. from aqua, as bringing wet weather, or aquilus, dark, as bringing lowering and stormy weather].

  1. I.
    1. A. Lit., the north wind; Gr. Βορεας; plur., Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; Ov. M. 2, 132; 5, 285; 10, 77 al.; acc. to accurate nautical designation, north-one-third-east wind, between the septentrio and vulturnus, opp. to Auster Africanus or Libonotus, Sen. Q. N. 5, 16; Plin. 2, 47, 46, § 119 sq.: horrifer Aquilonis stridor gelidas molitur nives, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: cum ille vento Aquilone venisset Lemnum, Nep. Milt. 1, 5: Aquilo frigidus, Verg. G. 2, 404: densus, id. ib. 3, 196: stridens Aquilone procella, id. A. 1, 102: hiems aquilonibus asperat undas, id. ib. 3, 285: impotens, Hor. C. 3, 30, 3: clarus, Verg. G. 1, 460: Threïcius, Hor. Epod. 13, 3: ad aquilonem et ad austrum, Vulg. 1 Par. 9, 24; ib. Luc. 13, 29: ad aquilonem et meridiem, ib. Gen. 13, 14 et persaepe (in the Vulg. only in sing.).
      Plur.: Africum Decertantem aquilonibus, Hor. C. 1, 3, 13: Neptunus classes aquilonibus arcet, id. A. P. 64 al. persaepe.
    2. B. Meton. for the north: spelunca conversa ad aquilonem, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48.
  2. II. Ăquĭlo, ōnis, m.; in mythology, the husband of Orithyia and father of Calais and Zetes, who dwelt in a cave of Hæmus, Cic. Leg. 1, 1, 3; Ov. M. 7, 3; Mel. 3, 5, 1; Val. Fl. 4, 432; Hyg. Fab. 14.

ăquĭlōnāris, e, adj. [aquilo.].

  1. I. Northerly, northern: regio tum aquilonaris, tum australis, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50 (but v. aquilonius).
  2. II. Piscis aquilonaris, a constellation, the Northern Fish, Vitr. 9, 6; cf. Cic. Fragm. ix. 2, p. 580 Orell.

Ăquĭlōnĭa, ae, f., a town of the Hirpini, upon the river Aufidus, now Lacedogna, Liv. 10, 38; 39, 41 sq.; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 797.—Ăquĭlōni, ōrum, m., its inhabitants, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 105.

* Ăquĭlōnĭgĕna, ae, comm. [aquilogigno], born in the north, of northern extraction; a poet. epithet of northern nations: Britanni, Aus. Mos. 407.

ăquĭlōnĭus, a, um, adj. [aquilo].

  1. I. Northern, northerly, of the north: quae (regio) tum est aquilonia tum australis, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50 B. and K.: hiems, Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 12: luna, toward the north, id. 2, 97, 99, § 215: loca, id. 27, 13, 119, § 144: Aquilonius piscis, a constellation (cf. aquilonaris), Col. 11, 2, 24 and 63; Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 237.
  2. II. (Acc. to aquilo, II.) Of or pertaining to Aquilo (as a person): proles, i.e. Calais and Zetes, Prop. 1, 20, 25; Val. Fl. 4, 462: pignora, Stat. Th. 5, 432.