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South wind

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Canonical name
South wind
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None
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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Claims

3
·Direct

South Wind falls upon Ulysses with the other quarter winds, helping raise a tremendous sea.

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Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up
·Simile

South Wind joins the other quarter winds in playing battledore and shuttlecock with Ulysses’s raft.

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It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once
·Remembered

The South Wind blows steadily for a whole month, with only the East Wind also present.

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For a whole month the wind blew steadily from the South, and there was no other wind, but only South and East.

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
the wind blew steadily from the South
·Remembered
the wind got into the South again

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 23

Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident, stirred it round in the sea, and roused the rage of every wind that blows till earth, sea, and sky were hidden in cloud, and night sprang forth out of the heavens. Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up, so that Ulysses’ heart began to fail him. ‘Alas,’ he said to himself in his dismay, ‘what ever will become of me? I am afraid Calypso was right when she said I should have trouble by sea before I got back home. It is all coming true. How black is Jove making heaven with his clouds, and what a sea the winds are raising from every quarter at once. I am now safe to perish. Blest and thrice blest were those Danaans who fell before Troy in the cause of the sons of Atreus. Would that I had been killed on the day when the Trojans were pressing me so sorely about the dead body of Achilles, for then I should have had due burial and the Achaeans would have honoured my name; but now it seems that I shall come to a most pitiable end.’