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Africus may refer to: Africus or Lips, the deity of the south west wind; Saint Africus, 7th-century French saint; Africus, the 1995 Johannesburg Biennale ...
Saint Africus was a 7th-century French Roman Catholic saint about whom very little is known. He was a bishop of Comminges in southern France (Haute-Garonne), celebrated for his zeal for orthodoxy. His 7th-century shrine was destroyed by Calvinists. [1] His feast day is celebrated November 16.
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. [1]
Scipio Africanus was born as Publius Cornelius Scipio in 236 BC to his then-homonymous father and Pomponia into the family of the Cornelii Scipiones. [2] His family was one of the major still-extant patrician families and had held multiple consulships within living memory: his great-grandfather Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and grandfather Lucius Cornelius Scipio had both been consuls and ...
His Roman equivalent was Africus, due to the Roman province Africa being to the southwest of Italy. This name is thought to be derived from the name of a North African tribe, the Afri . Friezes on the Clocktower of Andronicus Cyrrhestes ( Tower of the Winds )
Austroafricus (SSW) – compound of Auster and Africus. Africus (SW) – Isidore deduces it correctly "from Africa", a direct translation of the Greek Lips ("from Libya"). Favonius (W) – Isidore is probably correct in relating it to "favere", a favorable wind. He speaks of it as coming in the Spring, melting the winter frost and reviving ...
Dogoda is the goddess of the west wind, and of love and gentleness.; Stribog is the name of the Slavic god of winds, sky and air. He is said to be the ancestor (grandfather) of the winds of the eight directions.
Africanus Fabius Maximus, a Roman senator, the younger son of Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC); Cresconius Africanus, a Latin canon lawyer, probably fl. latter half of 7th century