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In and, the Anemoi ( Ἄνεμοι, "Winds") were wind gods who were each ascribed a  from which their respective winds came (see ), and were each associated with various  and  conditions.

Lesser Winds
Four lesser wind deities appear in a few ancient sources, such as at the in Athens:

Kaikias was the Greek deity of the northeast wind. He is shown on the monument as a bearded man with a shield full of hailstones.

Apeliotes (or Apheliotes) (the name means 'from the (rising) sun') was the Greek deity of the east wind. As this wind was thought to cause a refreshing rain particularly beneficial to farmers, he is often depicted wearing high boots and carrying fruit, draped in a light cloth concealing some flowers or grain. He is clean shaven, with curly hair and a friendly expression. Because Apeliotes was a minor god, he was often syncretized with Eurus, the southeast wind. The Roman counterpart of Apeliotes was Subsolanus.

Skiron was the name used in Athens for the wind which blew from the Scironian rocks (a geographical feature near to the west of Athens). On the Tower of the Winds, however, he appears on the northwest side. His name is related to Skirophorion, the last of the three months of spring in the. He is depicted as a bearded man tilting a cauldron, representing the onset of winter. His Roman counterpart is Caurus or Corus. Caurus was also one of the oldest Roman wind-deities, and numbered among the  ("indigenous gods"), a group of abstract and largely minor entities. The Roman poet writes when describing steppe winter weather near the :
 * Semper hiemps, semper spirantes frigora cauri
 * "Always winter, always the northwest winds breathing cold"

Lips was the Greek deity of the southwest wind, often depicted holding the of a ship. His Roman equivalent was Africus, due to the Roman province being to the southwest of. This name is thought to be derived from the name of a {{WPL|North Africa|North African]] tribe, the {{WPL|Afri}}.

Other minor wind deities included:
 * Argestes "clearing", a wind blowing from about the same direction as Skiron (Caurus), and probably another name for it
 * Aparctias, sometimes called the north wind instead of Boreas
 * Thrascias, the north-north-west wind (sometimes called in Latin Circius)
 * Euronotus, the wind blowing from the direction, as its name suggests, between Euros and Notos, that is, a south-southeast wind (Euroauster to the Romans)
 * {{WPL|Iapyx}}, the northwest wind about the same as Caurus. It was this wind, according to, that carried the fleeing {{WPL|Cleopatra}} home to Egypt after she was defeated at the {{WPL|battle of Actium}}.
 * Libonotus, the south-southwest wind, known as Austro-Africus to the Romans
 * Meses, another name for the north-west wind
 * Olympias, apparently identified with Skiron/Argestes
 * Phoenicias, another name for the southeast wind ("the one blowing from Phoenicia", due to this land lying to the south-east of Greece)

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