I. Of or pertaining to gold, golden, gold-: statera, Varr. ap. Non. p. 455, 21: “metalla,” gold-mines, Plin. 37, 12, 74, § 193: “fornax,” for smelting gold, id. 34, 13, 34, § 132: “negotium,” Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 51: canon, a tax upon purchase and sale, Cod. 10, 47, 10; cf.: “auraria pensitatio,” ib. 11, 61, 2; and absol. auraria, ib. 12, 6, 29.—Hence,
II. Subst.
B. aurārĭa , ae, f.
a. (Sc. fodina.) A gold-mine, Tac. A. 6, 19. —
b. A female worker in gold, or a golddealer, Inscr. Orell. 4065 (v. Orell. ad h. l.).