405. Names of male beings, rivers, winds, and mountains, are masculine:
as,
#Caesar#, #Gāius#, #Sūlla#, men’s names; #pater#, _father_; #erus#,
_master_; #scrība#, _scrivener_; #Tiberis#, _the Tiber_; #Aquilō#, _a
Norther_; #Lūcrētilis#, _Mt. Lucretilis_.
406. The river names: #Allia#, #Dūria#, #Sagra#, #Lēthē#, and #Styx# are
feminine. Also the mountain names #Alpēs#, plural, _the Alps_, and some
Greek names of mountains in #-a# or #-ē#: as, #Aetna#, _Mt. Etna_;
#Rhodopē#, a Thracian range. A few are neuter, as #Sōracte#.