Aeolus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Aeŏlus, i, m., = Αἴολος.

I The god of the winds , son of Jupiter (or Hippotas) and of Menalippa , ruler of the islands between Italy and Sicily , where he kept the winds shut up in caverns , and , at the bidding of Jupiter , let them loose or recalled them , Verg. A. 1, 52: Aeolon Hippotaden, cohibentem carcere ventos, Ov. M. 14, 224. —

II A king in Thessaly , son of Hellen and Doreïs , grandson of Deucalion , father of Sisyphus , Athamas , Salmoneus , etc., Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 585.

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