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What does Zephyrus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The Ancient Greek god of the west wind, supposed to be the gentlest of the winds and the messenger of spring. His parents are Eos/Aurora and Astraeus, and his brothers are Boreas, Notus and Eurus, (the Anemoi), and the Astra Planeta. His wife is Chloris and their son is Karpos. His Roman counterpart is Favonius.
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And by and by she commaunded Zephyrus by the appointment of her husband to bring them downe.
Zephyrus and Aura, the airborne characters wafting her forward with their breath, float in a motionless, weightless sky, locked in an embrace.
Her cult developed among the Sabines, and as we recall she was abducted by Zephyrus, who then married her.
The 86-foot Zephyrus V, owned by the Californian Bob McNeil, joined 61 other yachts in the lineup for this summer's DaimlerChrysler North Atlantic Challenge, a trans-Atlantic race for fully crewed, monohulled yachts.
Zephyrus had a lapful of flowers,204 and was the one wind sent to play among children.
Boreas and Zephyrus often bear rule on the same day, one reigning with mildness in the morning, the other despotically at evening.

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