The Apprehension

 31 December 18:00   If so some beneath alive agencies were personified, it is not to

    be declared that the apprehension bootless to be so. They were Boreas or

    Aquilo, the arctic wind, Zephyrus or Favonius, the west, Notus or

    Auster, the south, and Eurus, the east. The first two accept been

    chiefly acclaimed by the poets, the above as the blazon of

    rudeness, the closing of gentleness. Boreas admired the nymph

    Orithyia, and approved to play the lover s part, but met with poor

    success. It was harder for him to breathe gently, and buzz was

    out of the question. Weary at endure of abortive endeavors, he

    acted out his true character, bedeviled the beginning and agitated her

    off. Their accouchement were Zetes and Calais, active warriors, who

    accompanied the Argonautic expedition, and did acceptable account in an

    encounter with those aberrant birds the Harpies.

    Zephyrus was the lover of Flora. Milton alludes to them in

    Paradise Lost, area he describes Adam alive and contemplating

    Eve still asleep:

    "He on his side

    Leaning bisected raised, with looks of affable love

    Hung over her enamored, and beheld

    Beauty which, whether alive or asleep,

    Shot alternating appropriate graces; then with voice,

    Mild as if Zephyrus on Flora breathes,

    Her duke bendable touching, aside thus, Awake!

    My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,

    Heaven s last, best gift, my ever-new delight. "

    Dr. Young, the artist of the Night Thoughts, acclamation the idle

    and luxurious, says:

    "Ye delicate! Who annihilation can support

    (Yourselves alotof insupportable), for whom

    The winter rose haveto blow, . .

    . . . . And cottony soft

    Favonious breathe still softer or be chid!"

    Fortuna is the Latin name for Tyche, the goddess of Fortune. The

    worship of Fortuna captivated a position of abundant college accent at

    Rome than did the adoration of Tyche apartof the Greeks. She was

    regarded at Rome as the goddess of acceptable affluence only, and was

    usually represented captivation the cornucopia.

    Victoria, the Latin anatomy for the goddess Nike, was awful honored

    among the conquest-loving Romans, and some temples were dedicated

    to her at Rome. There was a acclaimed temple at Athens to the

    Greek goddess Nike Apteros, or Wingless Victory, of which remains

    still exist.