Septentrio — N. Named from the seven stars of the axis, which turn about the pole. With Auster, one of the two cardinal winds.SEPTENTRIONAquilo — NNE. Because it binds the waters (aquas stringat) and scatters the clouds — cold and dry. The same as Boreas, blowing from the Hyperborean mountains.AQUILONNEVulturnus — ENE. Because it thunders on high — alte tonat.VULTURNUSENESubsolanus — E. Because it is born beneath the rising of the sun — sub ortu solis.SUBSOLANUSEEurus — ESE. Because it flows from Eos, that is, from the east; it is joined to Subsolanus.EURUSESEEuroauster — SSE. Because it has Eurus on the one side and Auster on the other.EUROAUSTERSSEAuster — S. From drawing up water — ab hauriendo aquas — so it thickens the air and feeds the clouds. The Greek Notos.AUSTERSAustroafricus — SSW. Because it is joined on either side to Auster and to Africus. Also called Libonotus.AUSTROAFRICUSSSWAfricus — WSW. Named from its own region, for in Africa it begins to blow.AFRICUSWSWFavonius — W. Because it favours — fovet — the crops and the flowers. The Greek Zephyrus, by whose breath bud and bloom are quickened.FAVONIUSWCorus — WNW. Because it closes the circle of the winds and makes, as it were, a chorus. Formerly Caurus; many call it Argestes.CORUSWNWCircius — NNW. Because it is joined to Corus. The Spaniards call it Gallicus, since it blows on them from the direction of Galicia.CIRCIUSNNWOIP — Fire tablet of the North🜂OIPORO — Air tablet of the East🜁OROMOR — Earth tablet of the South🜃MORMPH — Water tablet of the West🜄MPH