Æolus is represented as having the power of holding the winds confined in a cavern, and occasionally giving them liberty to blow over the world. […] The Arabian Circe, who had unlimited power of metamorphosis. […] Juno offered him power, Pallas wisdom, and Venus promised him the most beautiful woman in the world. […] In a lake, whose waters approached to his lips, he stood burning with thirst, without the power to drink. […] A Roman name of Venus, signifying the power of love to change the hard-hearted.