Classical compass winds mentioned only four winds. Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) in his "Theogony" (c. 735) gives the four winds mythical personification as gods, the Anemoi ("Ἄνεμοι"), the children of the Titan gods Astraeus (stars) and Eos (dawn). But Hesiod himself refers to only three winds by name – Boreas, Notos and Zephyrus – which he called the "good winds" and the "children of the morning" (engendering a little confusion, as it might be read as they were all easterly winds – although curious that Eurus is not among them). Hesiod refers to other "bad winds", but not by name. The Greek physician
Notus, Idaho Notus, Idaho Notus is a small rural city in Canyon County, Idaho, United States. The population was 531 at the 2010 census and is the smallest town out of the eight in Canyon County. It is part of the Boise City–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. The present day location of the City of Notus is located along Highway 20/26. in 1874, the Lower Boise Post Office was established on the homestead of C.L.F Peterson. The inclusion of the Lower Boise Post Office is considered to be the primary reason for the present location of Notus. According to an Idaho Press