The New Student's Reference Work/Æolus

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Æolus (ē′ō-lus), the mythical god of the winds. He is said to have ruled over the Æolian islands, now the Lipari group in the Tyrrhenian sea. Here he kept the winds shut up in a cave, loosing them and calling them back at the command of Neptune.