the Hēos of the Greeks, the goddess of the dawn, was the daughter of Hyperion and Thea according to Hesiod, or of Pallas according to Ovid. It was under this name that the ancients deified the light which foreruns the rising of the sun above our hemisphere. Aurora is represented by the poets as ascending from her ocean bed in a flame-coloured chariot, and opening with her rosy fingers the gates of the east, pouring dew upon the earth, and causing the flowers to spring. Nox and Somnus fly before her, and the constellations of heaven disappear at her approach. Her amours with Orion, Cephalus, and Tithonus, are celebrated by the poets; and by Astraeus she became the mother of the stars, winds, &c. In the tragic writers, Eos is identified with the day.