Cardinal Directions in Latin

Yester-day, I discovered via the Vulgate translation of Revelation 21:13 that the words for the cardinal directions in Latin start with only two different letters:  aquilone (north), austro (south), oriente (east), and occasu (west) (those are all in the ablative case since that's how they appear in the verse).  Consequently, the directions at each end of the two major axes (north-south and east-west) have the same initial letter, creating a nice balance.

I also lookt up occidens (an-other word for west) in my Latin dictionary and discovered that it comes from the verb occidere, which means (among other things) "to fall" or "to set," as in the sun.  Similarly, oriente comes from oriri, "to rise."  If I'm not mistaken, the Greek words for east and west, ἀνατολή and δυσμή respectively, also come from verbs that mean "to rise" (ἀνατέλλω) and "to set" (δύνω, δῦμι).