Of these one comes from the rising, one from the midday quarter, one from the setting, one from the north.
And Subsolanus, being humid, changes into the South, which is warm. And the South, rarefying, is changed into the East; but the East, becoming further rarefied, is purified into the North wind, therefore (O. v. 385):—
She roused the swift North and brake the waves before him.
Their contention he explains naturally (O. v. 331):—
Now the South would toss it to the North to carry, and now
again the East would yield it to the West.
He knew besides that the North Pole is suspended over the earth, and how it weighs on the men who dwell in that climate. But the South Pole, on the contrary, is profound; as when he says of the North Pole (O. v. 296):—
And the North that is born in the bright air rolling on a
great wave on the Southwest wind.
(O. iii. 295):—
Where the Southwest wind drives a great wave against the
left headland."
For by saying "rolling" he notes the force of the wave rushing on from above, but the wind "driving" signifies a force applied to what is higher, coming from what is lower.