argestes

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2024-12-02
Primary meaning north-west wind
Literal translation north-west wind
Variants
argestes
Edited by
north-west wind type of wind

A solstitiali occidente corus venit, qui apud quosdam argestes dicitur—mihi non videtur, quia cori violenta vis est et in unam partem rapax, argestes fere mollis est et tam euntibus communis quam redeuntibus—

‘From the summer-solstitial setting [N.W.] comes Corus, which is called Argestes by some. This does not seem right to me, because the force of Corus is violent, gusting in one direction, while Argestes is ordinarily gentle and hits travellers the same coming and going.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.16.5

Genre: philosophy
Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 108-109

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). argestes (Lemma #1835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). argestes (Lemma #1835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). argestes (Lemma #1835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) argestes (Lemma #1835), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1835,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {argestes ({Lemma} #1835)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1835/},
}