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whose waters flowed with gold

  • 1 aureus

    aurĕus, a, um, adj. [id.].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of gold, golden (syn.:

    aureolus, auratus, aurifer): patera,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 104 and 263:

    vasa,

    Vulg. Exod. 12, 35; ib. 2 Tim. 2, 20:

    torulus,

    Plaut. Am. prol. 144:

    imber,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 37:

    funis,

    Lucr. 2, 1154: torques. Vulg. Gen. 41, 42:

    simulacra,

    Lucr. 2, 24:

    mala Hesperidum,

    id. 5, 33:

    aurea mala,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 6:

    pelles,

    id. ib.:

    corona (a gift for distinction in war),

    Liv. 7, 37, 1; Inscr. Orell. 363; 3453; 3475:

    corona,

    Vulg. Exod. 25, 11:

    candelabra,

    ib. Apoc. 1, 12: nummus, and absol.: aurĕus, i, m., the standard gold coin of Rome, a gold piece (first struck in the second Punic war), of the value of 25 denarii or 100 sestertii (weighing about 120 grains, and being about equal to £1, 1 s. 1 d. or $5.10), Cic. Phil. 12, 8: si (tibi) contigit aureus unus. Juv. 7, 122;

    fully, aureus nummus,

    Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 47; Suet. Calig. 42; id. Claud. 21; id. Vit. 16; id. Oth. 4; id. Dom. 7 al.—Of the Hebrew shekels (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. 4 Reg. 5, 5; ib. 2 Par. 9, 15; 9, 16.— Poet.:

    vis aurea tinxit Flumen,

    i. e. the power of changing every thing to gold, Ov. M. 11, 142.—
    B.
    Furnished with gold, wrought, interwoven, or ornamented with gold, gilded:

    victimam auream polcram immolabat,

    i. e. with gilded horns, Naev. 1, 12 (cf. Hom. Od. 3, 426):

    sella,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 34, and Prop. 5, 10, 28:

    cingula,

    Verg. A. 1, 492:

    Capitolia,

    id. ib. 8, 347. templa, Prop. 5, 1, 5:

    cuspis,

    Ov. M. 7, 673:

    Pactolus,

    whose waters flowed with gold, id. ib. 11, 87; cf: Lucr 5, 911 sq.—
    C.
    Of the color of gold, glittering like gold, golden:

    liquidi color aureus ignis,

    Lucr. 6, 205:

    Barba erat incipiens, barbae color aureus,

    Ov. M. 12, 395; Plin. 37, 5, 20, § 76; Gell. 2, 26, 5; Pall. Mart. 13, 4:

    lumina solis,

    Lucr. 5, 461; so,

    aurea Phoebe,

    Verg. G. 1, 431; Ov. M. 2, 723:

    luna,

    id. ib. 10, 448; Hor. Epod 17, 41:

    aureus sol,

    Verg. G 1, 232; 4, 51; so Ov. M. 7, 663: sidera, Verg A. 2, 488;

    11, 832: caesaries,

    golden locks, id. ib. 8, 659:

    coma,

    Cat. 61, 95, and Ov. M. 12, 395:

    aurea mala,

    Verg. E. 3, 71, and 8, 52: Aurea pavonum ridenti imbuta lepore Saecla, the golden species of peacock, full of laughing beauty, Lucr 2, 502.—
    II.
    Trop., of physical and mental excellences or attractions, golden, beautiful, splendid:

    aurea Venus,

    Verg. A. 10, 16; Ov M. 10, 277;

    15, 761: Amor,

    id. Am. 2, 18, 36:

    Copia,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 28:

    Aurea Phoebi porticus,

    Prop. 3, 29, 1:

    litus,

    Mart. 11, 80:

    aether,

    Ov. M. 13, 587:

    medicamentum,

    Col. 6, 14, 5 al.:

    dicta, vita,

    Lucr. 3, 12 and 13:

    mores,

    Hor. C 4, 2, 23:

    Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aureā,

    id. ib. 1, 5, 9:

    tua mater Me movet atque iras aurea vincit anus,

    Tib. 1, 6, 58:

    mediocritas,

    the golden mean, Hor. C. 2, 10, 5:

    aetas,

    the golden age, Ov. M. 1, 89:

    tempus,

    Hor. Epod. 16, 64.—Hence, Virgo = Astraea, Albin. 2, 23.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > aureus

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