When Ulysses left the island of Æolus, whom Jupiter had made keeper of the winds, Æolus bound the storm-winds in an ox’s bladder, and tied it in the ship that not even a little breath might escape. Then he sent the west wind to waft the ship onward. While Ulysses was asleep his companions, thinking a treasure was concealed in the bladder, loosed the skin, and all the winds rushed out. The ship was driven back to the island of Æolus, who refused to let them land, believing that they must be hated by the gods.
Winds (The), according to Hesiod, were the sons of Astræus and Aurora.
You nymphs, the winged offspring which of old
Aurora to divine Astræus bore.
Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads(1767).
Winds and Tides. Nicholas of Lyn, an Oxford scholar and friar, was a great navigator. He “took the height of mountains with his astrolobe,” and taught that there were four whirlpools like the Maelström of Norway--one in each quarter of the globe, from which the four winds issue, and which are the cause of the tides.
One Nicholas of Lyn
The whirlpools of the seas did come to understand, ...
For such immeasured pools, philosophers agree,
I’ the four parts of the world undoubtedly there be,