Aurĭgĕna, ae, comm. [aurum-gigno],
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).
aurigena ae, m aurum + GEN-, sprung from gold (of Perseus), O. ...
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