Africus

Latin-English

Afrĭc|us, -a, -um. (ˈa.fri.kus) adj.

1. African.
2. subst. masc. The southwest wind, the Libeccio.

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.36:

avertunt pestem ab Aegypto, cum volucris anguis ex vastitate Libyae vento Africo invectas interficiunt atque consumunt

They rid Egypt of a pestilence when they kill and consume the serpents flying in from the Libyan desert on the African wind.