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Aurĭgĕna
ae, comm.
aurum-gigno
I.
sprung or produced from gold, gold-begotten; poet. epithet of Perseus, as son of Danaë by Jupiter transformed into a shower of gold, Ov. M. 5, 250; Sid. Carm. 6, 14 (cf. χρυσόπατρος, Lycophr. 838).
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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