Favonius

[ fuh-voh-nee-uhs ]

noun

1. the ancient Roman personification of the west wind.

Example Sentences

Draco is any bloody fellow; Favonius is any sycophant: but Pope is very different.

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Favonius, in the midst of a thousand impertinent assailants of the divine truths, is an undisturbed defender of them.

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Favonius carried my tribe with better credit than his own; he lost that of Lucceius.

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There no one will speak his mind except Antius and Favonius, for Cato is ill.

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Favonius has the good sense to talk about himself occasionally and tell his own experience.

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