Caeciasn.
? Obsolete.
The north-east wind personified.
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xl. 179 Just as the winde called Cecias attracts the clouds.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 699 Boreas and Cæcias and Argestes loud. View more context for this quotation
1824 T. Forster Perennial Cal. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 119 And Caecias blows his bitter blaste of woe.
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