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Boreas was one of the two winds that reached Troy and fell upon the pyre.
“the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them. They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre”
Boreas was one of the winds that swept over the Thracian sea on the homeward journey.
“The winds then went home beyond the Thracian sea, which roared and boiled as they swept over it.”
In the cloud simile, fierce Boreas sleeps among boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter clouds.
“fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions”
Boreas is the comparison-wind whose blast drives loudly thundering waves onto shore.
“when driven before the blast of Boreas”
Jove says Boreas and Juno spitefully carried Hercules over the seas to Cos after suborning the tempests.
“noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests”
In a simile for Iris’s flight, Boreas drives cold hail and snowflakes from the clouds with his blast.
“cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas”
Aeneas says Boreas desired the feeding mares and, in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion, covered them.
“Boreas was enamoured of them as they were feeding, and covered them in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion”
Boreas feasted in Zephyrus's house and approached Iris, calling her to him.
“They were holding high feast in the house of boisterous Zephyrus when Iris came running up to the stone threshold of the house and stood there, but as soon as they set eyes on her they all came towards her and each of them called her to him”
Boreas rose with an air-rending cry, swept clouds, raised waves, and blasted Patroclus's pyre until it roared.
“the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them. They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre till the mighty flames roared under the blast that they blew.”
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“Boreas sleeps”
“Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos”
“Boreas was enamoured of them”
“the two winds Boreas and Zephyrus”