auster, tri, m. [Sanscr. ush-, to burn; the burning, hot wind], the south wind (opp. aquilo, the north wind).
I Lit.: auster fulmine pollens, Lucr. 5, 745: validus, id. 1, 899; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 15: vehemens, Cic. Att. 16, 7: turbidus, Hor. C. 3, 3, 4: nubilus. Prop. 3, 8, 56: umidus, bringing or producing rain , Verg. G. 1, 462; so, pluvius, Ov. M. 1, 66: frigidus, Verg. G. 4, 261, and Prop. 3, 22, 16: hibernus. Tib. 1, 1, 47; Vulg. Cant. 4, 16; ib. Luc. 12, 25 et saep.—
II Meton., the south country , the south : in aquilonis austrive partibus, Cic. Rep. 6, 20, 22; so Varr. L. L. 9, § 25 Müll.; Plin. 2, 9, 6, § 43; Vulg. Exod. 26, 16; ib. Matt. 12, 42.