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    reportedly conceived of only two winds – the winds from the north, known as Boreas (Βορέας), and the winds from the south, known as Notus (Νότος). But two...
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  • unearned gift (cf. ex gratia), not a direct result of merit. sola lingua bona est lingua mortua the only good language is a dead language Example of dog...
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    connecting it to a vase with red figures representing Boreas pursuing the nymph Oreithyia: Boreas is depicted as a two headed winged demon, the two faces...
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    ISBN 90-429-1318-5 I. Gagoshidze "The Achaemenid influence in Iberia" Boreas 19. (1996) Yarshater, Ehsan. "Encyclopædia Iranica" Archived 7 May 2016...
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  • equivalent to the Greek Anemoi: North wind Aquilo(n) or Septentrio (Greek Boreas); South wind Auster (Greek Notus); East wind Vulturnus (Eurus); West wind...
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    based on celestial bodies and used for orientation. The four Greek winds (Boreas, Notos, Eurus, Zephyrus) were confined to meteorology. Nonetheless, both...
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    at Noailles (Corrèze, France), in the European Pleistocene chronology". Boreas. 32 (3): 521–531. Bibcode:2003Borea..32..521D. doi:10.1080/03009480310003405...
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    (especially in France), but did not develop into the standard language or lingua franca. The Franks conquered adjoining territories of Germany (including...
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    Church. MacMillan & Co. 1893. Uustalu, E. The History of Estonian People. Boreas Pub. Co., 1952. Zarina, D. Old Riga: Tourist Guide, Spriditis, 1992 Švābe...
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    describing them as being so called in materna lingua vulgariter, or natale ydioma, or vulgari nostro, or most often lingua patria." AM 37 4to also contains a vernacular...
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  • 1903 — Greece (Crete), Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iran Gnaphosa borea Kulczyński, 1908 — Russia (middle Siberia to Far East), North America Gnaphosa...
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