=Aulētes=, a general who assisted Æneas in Italy, with 100 ships. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 207.――――The surname of one of the Ptolemean kings, father to Cleopatra. =Aulis=, a daughter of Ogyges. _Pausanias_, _Bœotia_.――――A town of Bœotia near Chalcis on the sea coast, where all the Greeks conspired against Troy. They were detained there by contrary winds, by the anger of Diana, whose favourite stag had been killed by Agamemnon. To appease the resentment of the goddess, Agamemnon was obliged to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia, whom, however, Diana spared by substituting a ram. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 4, li. 426.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12, li. 9, &c.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 2, li. 303. =Aulon=, a mountain of Calabria, opposite Tarentum, famous for its wine, which, according to _Horace_ bk. 2, ode 6, li. 18, is superior to that of Falernum. _Martial_, bk. 13, ltr. 125.――_Strabo_, bk. 6. ――――A place of Messenia. _Pausanias._ =Aulonius=, a surname of Æsculapius. =Aulus=, a prænomen common among the Romans.――――Gellius. _See:_ Gellius. =Auras=, a European river, flowing into the Ister from mount Hæmus. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 49. =Aurelia lex=, was enacted A.U.C. 653, by the pretor Lucius Aurelius Cotta, to invest the Senatorian and Equestrian orders, and the Tribuni Ærarii, with judicial power.――――Another, A.U.C. 678. It abrogated a clause of the Lex Cornelia and permitted the tribunes to hold other offices after the expiration of the tribuneship. =Aurelia=, a town of Hispania Bætica.――――The mother of Julius Cæsar. _Suetonius_, _Cæsar_, ch. 74.――――A fishwoman. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 98. =Aureliānus=, emperor of Rome after Flavius Claudius, was austere, and even cruel in the execution of the laws, and punished his soldiers with unusual severity. He rendered himself famous for his military character; and his expedition against Zenobia, the celebrated queen of Palmyra, gained him great honours. He beautified Rome, was charitable to the poor, and the author of many salutary laws. He was naturally brave, and in all the battles he fought, it is said, he killed no less than 800 men with his own hand. In his triumph, he exhibited to the Romans people of 15 different nations, all of which he had conquered. He was the first emperor who wore a diadem. After a glorious reign of six years, as he marched against the northern barbarians, he was assassinated near Byzantium, A.D. 275, January 29th, by his soldiers, whom Mnestheus had incited to rebellion against their emperor. This Mnestheus had been threatened with death, for some ill behaviour to the emperor, and therefore he meditated his death. The soldiers, however, soon repented of their ingratitude and cruelty to Aurelian, and threw Mnestheus to be devoured by wild beasts.――――A physician of the fourth century.