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• Aurora Soli Praevia
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• Aurora Lucis Rutilat

(1):

(n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

(2):

(n.) A species of crowfoot.

(3):

(n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

(4):

(n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.

(5):

(n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).