[It], golden mean, ariston metron [Gr.], aurea mediocritas [Lat.].

Spectandum nigris oculis, nigroque capillo, which Hesiod admires in his Alemena, "Cujus a vertice ac nigricantibus oculis, Tale quiddam spiral ac ab aurea Venere.

When Venus stood before Anchises (as [5018]Homer feigns in one of his hymns) in her costly robes, he was instantly taken, "Cum ante ipsum staret Jovis filia, videns eam Anchises, admirabatur formam, et stupendas vestes; Erat enim induta peplo, igneis radiis spiendidiore; Habebat quoque torques fulgidos, flexiles haelices, Tenerum collum ambiebant monilia pulchra, Aurea, variegata.

This love is the cause of all good conceits, neatness, exornations, plays, elegancies, delights, pleasant expressions, sweet motions, and gestures, joys, comforts, exultancies, and all the sweetness of our life, qualis jam vita foret, aut quid jucundi sine aurea Venere?

Quanto quam Lucifer aurea Phoebe, tanto virginibus conspectior omnibus Herce.

Gemmea pocula, argentea vasa, caelata candelabra, aurea. &c. Conchileata aulaea, buccinarum clangorem, tibiarum cantnum, et symphoniae suavitatem, majestatemque principis coronati cum vidissent sella deaurata &c. 5768.

One does occasionally, in manuscripts of a quite hopeless type, find the millionaire's daughter figuring as "Miss Aurea Golden," and her poor but sprightly cousin as "Miss Lalage Gay"; but the veriest tyro realizes, as a rule, that this sort of punning characterization went out with the eighteenth century, or survived into the nineteenth century only as a flagrant anachronism, like knee-breeches and hair-powder.

In front, but close by, was the long western flank of the Palatine hill, where, when the tale had been told and the rites of Hercules completed, Aeneas was to be shown the cave of the Lupercal; and again to the left, approaching the river within two hundred yards, was the Capitol to be: Hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem et Capitolia ducit, Aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis.

L'ami Bob, d'apres Quinel et de Montgon, by Arthur Gibbon Bovee & Aurea Guinnard.

Julia Bovee (W), Bonnie Bovee Whitt (C) & Aurea Guinnard (A); 13Aug69; R467139. BOVEE, JULIA.

CRU, ALBERT L. Teachers' manual and key to accompany Le francais moderne, by Albert L. Cru & Aurea Guinnard.

Yvonne L. Cru (W), Henri E. Cru & Yvonne Cru Perkins (C), Aurea Guinnard (A); 6Oct69; R469931.

GUINNARD, AUREA.

By Alexandre Dumas, editors: Arthur Gibbon Bovee & Aurea Guinnard.

CRU, ALBERT L. Le francais moderne, by Albert L. Cru & Aurea Guinnard.

Yvonne L. Cru (W), Henri E. Cru, Yvonne Cru Perkins (C) & Aurea Guinnard (A); 7Apr69; R459300. CRU, HENRI E. Le francais moderns.

GUINNARD, AUREA.

CRU, ALBERT L. Teachers' manual and key to accompany Le francais moderne, by Albert L. Cru & Aurea Guinnard.

Yvonne L. Cru (W), Henri E. Cru & Yvonne Cru Perkins (C), Aurea Guinnard (A); 6Oct69; R469931.

GUINNARD, AUREA.

By Alexandre Dumas, editors: Arthur Gibbon Bovee & Aurea Guinnard.

Lucent genialibus altis Aurea fulcra toris, epulæque ante ora paratæ Regifico luxu:

Chrysanthus and Daria (The Two Lovers of Heaven), whose martyrdom took place at Rome A.D. 284, and whose festival occurs on the 25th of October, is to be found in a very abridged form in the "Legenda Aurea" of Jacobus de Voragine, c. 152.

The following is taken from Caxton's Golden Legende, or translation of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine.

I have transcribed from the following edition, which is thus described in the Colophon: "The legende named in latyn Legenda Aurea, that is to say in englyshe the golden legende, For lyke as golde passeth all other metalles, so this boke excedeth all other bokes".