Editing Zephyrus (section)

== Favonius ==
[[File:Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus (detail) - WGA2772.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of Zephyrus with [[Aura (mythology)|Aura]] from [[Sandro Botticelli]]'s ''[[The Birth of Venus]]''.]]

Zephyrus's Roman equivalent was called '''Favonius''' (the "favouring") who held dominion over plants and flowers, however 'Zephyrus' was also commonly used by Romans. Some later authors would also describe him as having wings in his head.{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=s.v. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DU%3Aentry+group%3D5%3Aentry%3Dventi-bio-1 Venti]}} The Roman poet [[Horace]] writes:<ref>[[Horace]], ''Odes'' 3.7.</ref>

{{Verse translation|quid fles, Asterie, quem tibi candidi
primo restituent vere Favonii?|Why do you weep, Asterie, for the man whom the bright west winds
will restore to you at the beginning of spring?|lang=la}}

Unlike Greek authors, Roman writers held that Zephyrus/Favonius married not Iris but rather a local vegetation and fertility goddess named [[Flora (mythology)|Flora]] (identified and linked by Ovid with a minor Greek nymph named [[Chloris (nymph)|Chloris]] and her legend{{sfn|Grimal|1987|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/165/mode/2up?view=theater Flora]}}) after abducting her while she tried to run away and escape him; he gave her dominion over flowers, thus making amends for his violence and abduction of her.<ref name=":brill">{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia = [[Brill's New Pauly]] | publisher = Brill Reference Online | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/zephyrus-e12216400 | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12216400 | last = Rausch | first = Sven | location = Hamburg | title = Zephyrus | date = 2006 | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider | translator = Christine F. Salazar | access-date = April 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/details/ovidsfasti00oviduoft/page/274/mode/2up?view=theater 5.195–212]</ref>

Some analysts have suggested that Carpus, the son Zephyrus had by Hora/a Hora (season goddess), is supposed to have been actually mothered by Flora/Chloris instead, although this is not confirmed in any ancient text.{{sfn|Guirand|Graves|1987|page=[https://archive.org/details/newlarousseencyc00robe/page/137/mode/2up?view=theater 138]}}