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3. Sisters. Honorius speaks of his sister as “venerabilis Augusta germana nostra.” Trajan has coins inscribed with “Diva Marciana Augusta.”

4. Daughters. Mallia Scantilla the wife, and Didia the daughter of Didius Julianus, were both Augusta. Titus inscribed on coins his daughter as “Julia Sabina Augusta;” there are coins of the emperor Decius inscribed with “Herennia Etruscilla Augusta,” and “Sallustia Augusta,” sisters of the emperor Decius.

5. Others. Matidia, niece of Trajan, is called Augusta on coins; Constantine Monomachus called his concubine Augusta.

Augusta, the lady to whom lord Byron, in 1816, addressed several stanzas and epistles. She was a relative, and married colonel Leigh.

Augustan Age, the golden age of a people’s literature, so called because, while Augustus was emperor, Rome was noted for its literary giants.

The Augustan Age of England, the Elizabethan period. That of Anne is called the “Silver Age.”

The Augustan Age of France, that of Louis XIV. (1610–1740).

The Augustan Age of Germany, nineteenth century.

The Augustan Age of Portugal, from John the Great to John III. (1385–1557). In this period Brazil was occupied; the African coast explored; the sea-route to India was traversed; and Camoens flourished.

Augustina, the Maid of Saragoza. She was only 22 when, her lover being shot, she mounted the battery in his place; and the French, after a siege of two months, were obliged to retreat, August 15, 1808.

Such were the exploits of the Maid of Saragoza, who by her valour elevated herself to the highest rank of heroines. When the author was at Seville, she walked daily on the Prado, decorated with medals and orders, by order of the Junta.—Byron.

Augustine. The Ladder of St. Augustine, a poem by Longfellow.

Augustus Dunshunner, W. E. Aytoun (1813–1865).

Auld Lang Syne. Robert Burns, in a letter to Mr. Thomson, dated September, 1793, says, “One song more, and I have done. ‘Auld Lang Syne.’ The air is but mediocre, but … the old song … which has never been in print, nor even in MS. until I took it down from an old man’s singing, is enough to recommend any air.”

Auld Robin Gray was written (1771) by lady Anne Barnard, to raise a little money for an old nurse. Lady Anne’s maiden name was Lindsay, and her father was earl of Balcarras.

Aullay, a monster horse with an elephant’s trunk. The creature is as much bigger than an elephant as an elephant is larger than a sheep. King Baly of India rode on an aullay.

The aullay, hugest of four-footed kind,
The aullay-horse, that in his force,
With elephantine trunk, could bind
And lift the elephant, and on the wind
Whirl him away, with sway and swing,
E’en like a pebble from a practised sling.
   —Southey: Curse of Kehama, xvi. 2(1809).

Aumerle [O-murl], a French corruption of Albemarle (in Normandy).

Aurelia Darnel, in Smollett’s novel of Sir Launcelot Greaves. His best female character. She is both lady-like and womanly.