sirocco

SIROCCO

atabulus (Vid: Heindorf Hor. Sat. 1 5 78): auster (poetical Hor. Sat. 2 2 41).

sirocco: Auster, tri, m.: the leaden (fearfully oppressive) S., plumbeus A., Hor. S. 2, 6, 18 (Orelli): called also, nocens corporibus A., id. Od. 2, 14, 15. Probably the same wind is also meant (Od. 3, 23, 5) by pestilens Africus. (The wind called Atabulus, id. S. 1, 5, 8, was an E. wind; now called Altino Orell.)

Sirocco

See auster.