Notus
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Theogony
A wind-god, one of the three beneficial winds exempted from Typhoeus's harmful brood.
And from Typhoeus come boisterous winds which blow damply, except Notus and Boreas and clear Zephyr.
Works and Days
The South Wind, named as the bringer of dangerous autumn gales and rain that sailors are warned to return home before encountering.
but make all haste you can to return home again and do not wait till the time of the new wine and autumn rain and oncoming storms with the fierce gales of Notus who accompanies the heavy autumn rain of Zeus and stirs up the sea and makes the deep dangerous.