GALE Copy link • GALEaura (any wind, not excluding strong gales; e.g., aura rapida, stridens, violentior, in the poets); also, IMPROP., ventus (general term for wind): flatus (mostly poetical: flatus aestiferi, Cic., from Arat.). A stiff gale, magnus ventus. IMPROPR., aura. The gale of popular favor, popularis aura or ventus popularis (Cic.); aura favoris popularis (Liv., 22, 26).