Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AURA

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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.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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