Aurate

[Fr., from Lat. auratus, gilded.] A sort of pear. (Chem.) A saline combination of auric acid and a base. An'rated, a. [Lat. auratus , from aurum , gold.] Resembling or containing gold; gilded; gold-colored. -[Lat. auris, an ear.] Having ears. Au'ray, a seaport town of France, dep. Morbihan, cap. of a canton, on the Auray, 11 m. W. of Vannes. Charles of Blois was killed, and Du Guesclin made prisoner, in a battle fought here, 29th Sept., 1364. Pop . 4,247. Near the town is a celebrated chapel consecrated to the Virgin under the name of Notre Dame D'Auray , which is visited by numerous pilgrims, many of them coming bare-footed from a distance of more than 100 miles. Aure, (VAL D',) in France, one of the four valleys of Upper Armagnac, now dep. of Hautes-Pyrénées. Au'reate, a . [Lat. aureatus , aureus .] Golden; gilded. Aurelia, n. [Lat. aureus, golden.] (Zool.) A name given to that state of an insect which is between the caterpillar and its final transformation, and is commonly called a chrysalis or pupa. The term aurelia was first applied by the Romans, and that of chrysalis by the Greeks, to certain butterfly pupe which have a golden color. See CHRYSALIS. -A genus of Acalephæ , containing the common "Sun-Fish," A. flavidula, of the northern coast of N. America. Aurelian, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the aurelia. -n. An amateur collector and breeder of insects. Aurelian, LUCIUS DOMITIUS VALERIUS AURELIAN US. A Roman emperor, the son of a peasant, was B. in Pannonia, A. D. 212. He entered the ranks of the Roman army, and is said to have killed with his own hand nearly 1,000 men in a single campaign against the Sarmatians. He rapidly rose to eminence, and in 257 obtained a signal victory over the Goths in Illyricum, for which he was made consul, and styled by Valerian, the "liberator of Illyria and restorer of Gaul." In 269, A. was commander in-chief of the Roman cavalry. On the death of Claudius II., in 270, he ascended the imperial throne. He delivered Italy from the German barbarians, and conquered Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, in 273. After these victories he devoted himself to the improvement of Rome, and the reformation of public morals. A. next led an expedition against Persia, but the harshne of his character caused a conspiracy to be formed by his officers against him, and he was a a inated in Thrace, in 275 A. D. Aurelius Antoni'nus. See MARCUS AURELIUS. Aurelius, VICTOR SEXTUS, a Latin historian of the 4th century, who was governor of Pannonia under the Emperor Julian, and consul with Val ent in i an. His only authentic work extant is De Cesaribus , containing the biographies of the emperors from August us to Const an tine. Aurelias, in Michigan , a post-township of Ingham co., on Grand River, about 80 m. N.W.by W. of Detroit, and 12 S. of Lansing. Aurelius, in New York, a post-township of Cayuga co., 170 m. W. by N. of Albany, on the north end of Cayuga Lake. Aurelius, in Ohio, a township of Washington co., about 15 m. N. of Marietta.