Aurōra

, a godde , daughter of Hyper i on and Thia or Thea, or, according to others, of Titan and Terra. Some say that Pallas, son of Crius and brother to Perseus, was her father; hence her surname of Pall anti as . She married Astræus, by whom she had the winds, the stars, . Her amours with Tithonus and Cephalus are also famous; by the former she had Memnon and Æmathion, and Phaeton by the latter. See: Cephalus and Tithonus . She had also an intrigue with Orion, whom she carried to the island of Delos, where he was killed by Diana’s arrows. Aurora is generally represented by the poets drawn in a rose-coloured chariot, and opening with her rosy fingers the gates of the east, pouring the dew upon the earth, and making the flowers grow. Her chariot is generally drawn by white horses, and she is covered with a veil. Nox and Somnus fly before her, and the constellations of heaven disappear at her approach. She always sets out before the sun, and is the forerunner of his rising. The Greeks call her Eos. Homer , Iliad , bk. 8 ; Ody ey , bk. 10 ; Hymn to Aphrodite .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bks. 3, 9, 15.— Apollo dor us , bks. 1, 3.— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 535 .— Varro , de Lingua Latina , bk. 5 , . — Hesiod , Theogony .— Hyginus , preface to fables.