Boreas

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The ancient Greek name for the north wind (now also borras).

Being cold and stormy, it is represented on the Tower of the Winds in Athens by a warmly clad old man carrying a conch shell (probably to represent the howling of the wind). The term may originally have meant "wind from the mountains," thus the present use of bora.


The ancient Greek name for the north wind (now also borras).

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