A U R 
Rouen, and .thirty-feven and a half weft of Paris. Lat. 
48. 41. N. Ion. 16. 18. E. Ferro. 
AUR AN'TIUM, f in botany. See Citrus. 
AURAS', a town of Silelia, in the principality of 
Bredau, fituated near the Oder; twelve miles north-weft 
of Breflait. 
AURAY', a fca-port town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment and on the gulf of JVTorbihan, and principal place 
of a didrict, at the month of a river of the fame name. 
Lat. 47. 40. N. Ion. 14. 37. E. Ferro. 
AUR'BACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate; thirty miles north-eaft of 
Nuremberg. 
A UR'BURG, a town and caftle of Germany, in Upper 
Bavaria; four miles north of Kuftftein. 
AURE, a river of France, which runs into the Eure, 
near A net. 
AUREC', a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Moniftrol ; three leagues fouth-weft of St. Etienne, and 
one and a half north of Moniftrol. 
AURE'LIA, f. [ab aureo colore, Lat. from its ffiining 
yellow colour.] In natural hiftory, the fame with what is 
called chryfalis , and fometimes nympk. See Chrysalis. 
AUREI.IA'NA, f in botany. See Panax. 
AURELIA'NUS (Lucius Domitius), emperorof Rome, 
was one of the greatelt generals of antiquity, and command¬ 
ed the armies of the emperor Claudius with inch glory, 
that after the death of that emperor all the legions agreed 
to place him on the throne : this happened in the year 270. 
He carried the war from the eaft to the weft, with as much 
facility, fays a modern writer, as a body of troops marches 
from A 1 face into Flanders. He defeated the Goths, Sar- 
matians, Marcomanni, the Perlians, Egyptians, and Van¬ 
dals; conquered Zenobia queen of the Palmyreans, and 
Tetricus general of the Gauls ; both of whom were made 
Vo grace his triumph, in the year 274. He was killed by 
one of his own generals, in Thrace, in the year 275, when 
he was preparing to enter Perlia with a great army. See 
Rome. 
AURE'LIUS VIC'TOR. See Victor. 
AURENGABAD', a city in the Eaft Indies, capital 
of the province of Balagate, in the dominions ot the Great 
Mogul. It is furniffied with handfome mofques and ca- 
ravanferas. The buildings are chiefly of free-ftone, and 
pretty high, and the ftreets planted on each fide with 
trees. They have large gardens well flocked with fruit- 
trees and vines, H he foil about it is alio very fertile, 
and the flieep fed in its neighbourhood are remarkably 
large and ftrong. Lat. 19. 10. N. Ion. 75. 30. E. 
AURENGZE'BE, the Great Mogul, a famous con¬ 
queror, but deteftable parricide, who poifoned his father, 
and maflacred all his brethren, to make his way to the 
throne of Indoftan ; yet lie may be conlidered as the real 
founder and legiilator of the empire. He was a great and 
politic prince,"and the firft who extended his dominion 
over the peninlula within the Ganges, which is at prefent 
fo well known to the Englifh. He lived fo late as the 
year 1707, and it is faid that fome of his great officers of 
ftate were alive in the year 1750. Aurengzebe feems to 
have left too much power to the governors of his diftaiit 
provinces, and to have been too inattentive to prevent the 
effe£ts of that dreadful defpotifm, which, while in his 
hands, preferved the tranquillity of his empire ; but, when 
it defeended to his weak indolent fuccelfors, occafioned its 
overthrow. He lived to the age of near one hundred. See 
1-Iindostan. 
AUREO'LA,y. in its'original fignification, fi^nifies a 
jewel, which is propofed as a reward of victory in fome 
public difpute. Hence the Roman fchoolmen applied it 
to denote the reward bellowed on martyrs, virgins, and 
doctors, on account of their works of fupererogation; and 
painters ufe it to fignify the crown of glory with which 
they adorn the heads of faints, ccnfeffors, &c. 
Vol. II. No. 89. 
AUR 569 
AU'RES, f . an ancient punifhment among the Saxons, 
of cutting off the ears of church-robbers, and other felons. 
AURET'TE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Eure, near Bourges. 
AU'REUS, J. a Roman gold coin, equal in value to 
twenty-five denarii. According to Ainfworth, the aureus 
of the higher empire weighed near five pennyweights; 
and, in the lower empire, little more than half that weight. 
We learn from Suetonius, that it was cuftomary to give 
atirei to the viftors in the chariot-races. 
Aureus Mons, a mountain in the north-weft of Cor- 
fica, whofe ridge runs out to the north-eaft and fouth-eaft, 
forming an elbow. Another mountain of Moefia Supe¬ 
rior, or Servia, to the fouth of the Danube, with a cog- 
nominal town at its foot on the fame river. The emperor 
Probus planted this mountain with vines. Eutropius. 
AU'RICH, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, and county of Eaft Frielland, ten miles north-eaft 
of Embden. 
AURI'CULA,/! [dim. of a uris, Lat. the ear.] The 
external part of the ear; the lug. Alfo the fpecific name 
of fome herbs, from their fuppofed refemblance to an ear; 
as, auricula vmris , moufe ear; auricula urfi, bear’s ear, &c. 
The two mufcular bags, likewife, at the bafis of the heart 
are called its auricles , or ears, from their likenefs. 
Auricula Leporis,/. in botany. See Buphthal- 
mum and Bupleurum. 
Auricula Muris,/ in botany. See Arenlaria, 
Cerastium, Hieracium, Mvosotis, and Silene. 
Auricula Ursi, f. in botany. See Aretia, Pri¬ 
mula, Dodecatheon, and Verbascum. 
AURI'CULAR, adj. \_auricula, Lat. the ear.] Within 
the fenfe or reach of hearing.—You ffiall hear us con¬ 
fer, and by an auricular aIfuranee have your fatisfadlion. 
Shakfpeare. —Seeiet; told in the ear; as, auricular con- 
felfion. Traditional ; known by report.—The alchymifts 
call in many varieties out of aftrology, auricular traditions, 
and feigned teftimonies. Bacon. 
AURICULA'RI A, J. in botany. See Hedyotis. 
AURICULA'RIS, j. \_auricula, Lat. the ear.] The 
little finger, and an extenfor mufcle of the fame, have this 
name, becatife with this finger we ufually pick the ear. 
AURI'CULARLY, adv. in a fecret manner.—Thefe 
will foon confefs, and that not auricu/arly, but in a loud 
and audible voice. Decay of Piety. 
AURI’FEROUS, adj. \_aurifer, Lat.] That which pro¬ 
duces gold : 
Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines. 
Whence many a burlting ftream auriferous plays. Thomfon. 
AURTFLAM'MA, f in the French hiftory, properly 
denotes a flag or ftandard belonging to the abbey of St. 
Dennis, fufpended over the tomb of that faint, which the 
religious, on occalion of any war in defence of their lands 
or rights, took down, with great ceremony, and gave it 
to their protestor or advocate, to be borne at the head ot 
their forces. Auriflamma is hence uled to denote the chiefc 
flag or ftandard in an army. 
AURI'GA, f. the Waggoner, a conftellation in the 
northern hemifphere, confifting of fourteen ftars in Ptole¬ 
my’s catalogue; but in Tycho’s, twenty-feven; in Heve. 
lius’s, forty; and, in the Britannic catalogue, fixty-lix. 
This is one of tiie forty-eight old afterifms,. mentioned by 
all the molt ancient aftronomers. It is reprefented by the 
figure of an old man, in a pofture fomewhat like fitting, 
with a goat and her kids in his left hand, and a bridle in 
his right. Although the whole conftellation of Auriga is 
not mentioned among thofe from which the ancient form¬ 
ed prefages of the fucceeding weather, the two ftars in his 
arm were of the foremoft in that rank. It is thefe they 
called by the name Hcedi, and dreaded fo extremely on 
account of the ftorms and tempefts that fucceeded their 
riling, that it is faid they ffiut up the navigation of the 
fea for their lea Ion. And the day of their influence being 
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