“Some have held that there are only four winds: Solanus from the east; Auster from the south; Favonius from due west; Septentrio from the north. But more careful investigators tell us that there are eight.”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 4
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“These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.”
Editor’s Preface (p. 5)
City (1952)

Statement to Konrad Adenauer (April 1958), as quoted in "Konrad Adenauer" (1995) by Hans-Peter Schwarz, p. 308

Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 217.

“What if by such crime you sought both of heavens boundaries, that to which the Sun looks when he is sent forth from the eastern hinge and that to which he gazes as he sinks from his Iberian gate, and those lands he touches from afar with slanting ray, lands the North Wind chills or the moist South warms with his heat?”
Quid si peteretur crimine tanto
limes uterque poli, quem Sol emissus Eoo
cardine, quem porta vergens prospectat Hibera,
quasque procul terras obliquo sidere tangit
avius aut Borea gelidas madidive tepentes
igne Noti?
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 156

From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 36