"Aeolus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up the same space and made the same figure as the bags that were really filled with money, had been blown up with air, and called into my memory the bags full of wind, which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from AEolus. The great heaps of gold on either side the throne now appeared to be only heaps of paper, or little piles of notched sticks, bound up together in bundles, like ...
— Essays and Tales • Joseph Addison
... the land of the Cyclopes they came next to the AEolian island, where dwelt AEolus with his wife and twelve sons and daughters. The island floated on the sea, and all around it tall cliffs ran sheer down to the water, crowned on their summit by a wall of brass. Here they remained a whole month, and were hospitably entertained by AEolus, revelling in the abundance ...
— Stories from the Odyssey • H. L. Havell
... Queen. They were apt to come late to their office, and impatient to leave it when the hour of four drew nigh. There would sometimes come a storm through the Department, moved by an unseen but powerful and unsatisfied Aeolus, in which Bobbin and Geraghty would be threatened to be blown into infinite space. Minutes would be written and rumours spread about; punishments would be inflicted, and it would be given to be understood that now one and then ...
— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope
... on the intensity of the fires burning in tna, Hiera, and Stromboli. (See the remarkable passage in Strabo, liv. vi., Aetna.) The mountain island of Stromboli (Strongyle) was regarded therefore, as the dwelling-place of Aeolus, "the regulator of the winds," in consequence of the sailors foretelling the weather from the activity of the volcanic eruptions of this island. The connection between the eruption of a small volcano with ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... island of AEolus, who controls the winds. He received them with royal hospitality, pointed out to them their proper course to Ithaca, and when they left him, gave to Ulysses a bag in which he had tied up all the contrary winds, that they might ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various |
