Boreas

Iris, fleet as the wind, obeyed him, and as the cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas, even so did she wing her way till she came close up to the great shaker of the earth.

yet even this did not relieve my mind from the incessant anxiety which I felt about noble Herakles whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas [ pontos] to Cos, after suborning the tempests;

Boreas was enamored of them as they were feeding, and covered them in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion.

Whence indeed Homer too, it seems to me, thinking it not impossible nor incredible to men that there should be a wind-born race of horses, said that Boreas, having fallen in love with certain Trojan mares, filled them with seed and that a race of horses was born from them.

They were stationed off Chalcis in Euboea, and when they saw the storm rising, they then, if they had not already, sacrificed to and called upon Boreas and Orithyia to help them by destroying the barbarian fleet, just as before at Athos.

The story is told that because of an oracle the Athenians invoked Boreas, the north wind, to help them, since another oracle told them to summon their son-in-law as an ally.

When they went home, they founded a sacred precinct of Boreas beside the Ilissus river.

And from Typhoeus come boisterous winds which blow damply, except Notus and Boreas and clear Zephyr.

it is drawn from the ever-flowing rivers and is raised high above the earth by windstorm, and sometimes it turns to rain towards evening, and sometimes to wind when Thracian Boreas huddles the thick clouds.

He blows across horse-breeding Thrace upon the wide sea and stirs it up, while earth and the forest howl.

But through the fleeces of sheep, because their wool is abundant, the keen wind Boreas pierces not at all;

She was the child of Boreas, running swift as horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods.