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* aurīgĭnĕus (aurūgĭn-), a, um, adj. [aurugo], jaundiced: color, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 11.

‡ aurīgĭnōsus (aurūgĭn-), a, um, adj. [aurugo], jaundiced, ἰκτερικός, Gloss. Graec. Lat.; cf. Apul. Orth. Fragm. 41 Osann.

* aurūgĭnĕus, a, um, adj. [aurugo], jaundiced, yellow: color, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 11.

* aurūgĭno, āre, v. n. [aurugo], to be affected with the jaundice, to have the jaundice, Tert. Anim. 17.

aurūgo, ĭnis, f [aurum].

  1. I. The jaundice (from its color), Isid. Orig. 4, 8, 13: aurugo, quam quidam regium, quidam arquatum morbum vocant, Scrib. Comp. 110; 127; App. Herb. 85; cf. Apul. Orth. § 41; hence, sickly look, paleness, Vulg Jer. 30, 6.
  2. II. Of plants, mildew, Vulg. 2 Par. 6, 28; ib. Amos, 4, 9.

aurŭla, ae, f. dim. [aura], a gentle breeze; trop. (in eccl. Lat.): famae aurula, a puff of fame, Tert. Anim. 28 (an imitation of Vergil’s tenuis famae aura, A. 7, 646): Graecarum litterarum, a whiff of, Hier. Ep. 34.

* aurŭlentus, a, um, adj. [aurum], of the color of gold: lux, Prud. περὶ στεφ. 6, 49.

aurum (Sab. ausum, Paul. ex Fest. p. 9 Müll.; vulg. Lat., ōrum, ib. p. 183; cf. Ital. and Span. oro and Fr. or), i, n. [v. aes].

  1. I. Gold; as a mineral, v. Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 66 sqq.: auri venas invenire, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151: venas auri sequi, Lucr. 6, 808; Tac. G. 5: aurum igni perspicere, Cic. Fam. 9, 16: eruere terrā, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 53: auri fodina, Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 78; Vulg. Gen. 2, 11; ib. 2 Par. 2, 7; ib. Matt. 2, 11; Naev. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 797: ex auro vestis, id. 2, 22 (ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 22, 20) et saep.
    Provv.: montes auri polliceri, to promise mountains of gold, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 18: carius auro, more precious than gold, Cat. 107, 3 (cf.: κρεισσονα χρυσοῦ, Aesch. Choëph. 372; χρυσοῦ χρυσότερα, Sapph. Fr. 122. Ellis).
  2. II. Meton.
    1. A. Things made of gold, an ornament of gold, a golden vessel, utensil, etc.: Nec domus argento fulget nec auro renidet, gold plate, Lucr. 2, 27. So,
      1. 1. A golden goblet: et pleno se proluit auro, Verg. A. 1, 739: Regales epulae mensis et Bacchus in auro Ponitur, Ov. M. 6, 488: tibi non committitur aurum, Juv. 5, 39; 10, 27; Stat. Th. 5, 188; and in the hendiadys: pateris libamus et auro = pateris aureis, Verg. G. 2, 192.
      2. 2. A golden chain, buckle, clasp, necklace, jewelry: Oneratas veste atque auro, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 43: Donec eum conjunx fatale poposcerit aurum, Ov. M. 9, 411; 14, 394.
      3. 3. A gold ring: Ventilet aestivum digitis sudantibus aurum, Juv. 1, 28.
      4. 4. A golden bit: fulvum mandunt sub dentibus aurum, Verg. A. 7, 279; 5, 817.
      5. 5. The golden fleece: auro Heros Aesonius potitur, Ov. M. 7, 155.
      6. 6. A golden hairband, κρωβύλος: crines nodantur in aurum, Verg. A. 4, 138 Serv.
      7. 7. Esp. freq., gold as coined money: si quis illam invenerit Aulam onustam auri, Plaut. Aul. 4, 2, 4: De Caelio vide, quaeso, ne quae lacuna sit in auro, Cic. Att. 12, 6, 1: Aurum omnes victā jam pietate colunt, Prop. 4, 12, 48 sq.: quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacra fames? Verg. A. 3, 56; cf. Plin. 37, 1, 3, § 6; so Hor. C. 2, 16, 8; 2, 18, 36; 3, 16, 9; id. S. 2, 2, 25; 2, 3, 109; 2, 3, 142; id. Ep. 2, 2, 179; Vulg. Matt. 10, 9; ib. Act. 3, 6 et saep.
    2. B. The color or lustre of gold, the gleam or brightness of gold, Ov. M. 9, 689: anguis cristis praesignis et auro (hendiadys, for cristis aureis), id. ib. 3, 32: saevo cum nox accenditur auro, Val. Fl. 5, 369 (i. e. mala portendente splendore, Wagn.); so, fulgor auri, of the face, Cat. 64, 100, ubi v. Ellis.
    3. C. The Golden Age: redeant in aurum Tempora priscum, Hor. C. 4, 2, 39: subiit argentea proles, Auro deterior, Ov. M. 1, 115; 15, 260.

Aurunci, ōrum, m., = Ausones, q.v., = Αὔρουγκοι Tzetz.

  1. I. The Aurunci, Verg. A. 11, 318; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 56.
    Hence,
  2. II.
    1. A. Aurunca, ae, f., an old town in Campania (acc. to the fable, built by Auson, the son of Ulysses and Calypso, Fest. s. v. Ausoniam, p. 15): magnus Auruncae alumnus, i. e. the satirist Lucilius, whose paternal city, Suessa Aurunca, was a colony of the Aurunci, Juv. 1, 20 Rup.
      Hence,
    2. B. Au-runcus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Aurunca, Auruncian: senes, Verg. A. 7, 206: patres, id. ib. 7, 727: manus, id. ib. 7, 795: Suessa Aurunca, now Sessa, Vell. 1, 14.

Auruncŭlēius, i, m., a Roman nomen: L. Aurunculeius Cotta, Caes. B. G. 2, 11.

Auruspi, ōrum, m., a people of Ethiopia, Plin. 6, 30, 35, § 192.