AURE´LIUS, a young nobleman who tried to win to himself Do´rigen, the wife of Arvir´agus, but Dorigen told him she would never yield to his suit till all the rocks of the British coast were removed, "and there n'is no stone y-seen." Aurelius by magic made all the rocks disappear, but when Dorigen went, at her husband's bidding, to keep her promise, Aurelius, seeing how sad she was, made answer, he would rather die than injure so true a wife and noble a gentleman.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Franklin's Tale," 1388). (This is substantially the same as Boccaccio's tale of _Dimora and Gilberto_, x. 5. See DIANORA.) _Aurelius_, elder brother of Uther the pendragon, and uncle of Arthur, but he died before the hero was born. Even sicke of a flixe [_ill of the flux_] as he was, he caused himself to be carried forth on a litter; with whose presence the people were so encouraged, that encountering with the Saxons they wan the victorie.--Holinshed, _History of Scotland_, 99. ... once I read That stout Pendragon on his litter sick Came to the field, and vanquishèd his foes. Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._, act iii. sc. 2 (1589). AURORA LEIGH, daughter of an Englishman and an Italian woman. At her father's death Aurora comes to England to live with a severe, practical aunt. In time she becomes a poet, travels far, sees much, and thinks much of life's problems. She marries her cousin Romney, a philanthropist, blinded by an accident.--_Aurora_ _Leigh_, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). AURORA NUNCANOU, beautiful Creole widow in _The Grandissimes_, by George W. Cable. In her thirty-fifth year, she "is the red, red, full-blown, faultless joy of the garden. With her it will be always morning. That woman is going to last forever; ha-a-a-a!--even longer!" (1880). AUSTIN, the assumed name of the lord of Clarinsal, when he renounced the world and became a monk of St. Nicholas. Theodore, the grandson of Alfonso, was his son, and rightful heir to the possessions and title of the count of Narbonne.--Robert Jephson, _Count of Narbonne_ (1782). AUSTINS (_The_). _Miss Susan_, old maid resident at Whiteladies, concerned in a conspiracy to introduce a false heir to the estate. _Miss Augustine_, saintly sister, who tries to "turn the curse from _Whiteladies_, by her own prayers and those of her almsmen."--_Whiteladies_, by M.O.W. Oliphant. AUS´TRIA AND THE LION'S HIDE. There is an old tale that the arch-duke of Austria killed Richard I., and wore as a spoil the lion's hide which belonged to our English monarch. Hence Faulconbridge (the natural son of Richard) says jeeringly to the arch-duke: Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf-skin on those recreant limbs. Shakespeare, _King John_, act iii. sc. 1 (1596). (The point is better understood when it is borne in mind that fools and jesters were dressed in calf-skins.)