AURA
mentioned only in the Regionary Catalogue, in
Region IV, but
preserved in certain mediaeval documents where it designates a
locality behind the basilica of Constantine. It was probably a statue
of the nymph Aura who was beloved of Dionysus, and threw herself into
the Sangarius (
Mitt. 1907, 429-433;
BPW 1914, 382; HCh 177, 312,
316, 584, 596). For the Arcus Aurae, see
FORUM NERVAE (
LPD ii. 346;
Liber Censuum, ii. 162; HCh 177, 312). For representations of Aura,
see
Mitt. 1886, 126, 127; and (perhaps) Petersen, Ara Pacis Augustae,
pl. iii. p. 52; but cf. SScR 21.