one of the Pagan deities, was represented as the fon of Aurora, and the lover of the nymph Chloris, according to the Greeks, or of Flora according to the Romans; and as presiding over the growth of fruits and flowers. He is defcribed as giving a refreshing coolnefs to the air by his soft and agreeable breath, and as moderating the heat of summer by fanning the air with his filken wings. He is defignified under the form of a youth, with a very tender air, with wings refebling thofe of the butterfly, and with his head crowned with a variety of flowers. As the poets of Greece and Rome lived in a warm climate, they are lavish in their praiie of this beneficent deity, and under his name defcribe the pleaure and advantage they received from the weftern breezes.