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Rosy-fingered Aurora
Aurora
also: Розоперстая Аврора
The Roman dawn-goddess, invoked via Homer's stock epithet "rosy-fingered" in a mock-epic aside describing the morning after the wedding -- a deliberately overblown classical flourish over a shabby domestic scene.
Reading notes
- Marriage for Convenience (a novel in two parts) §89 Rosy-fingered Aurora
A mock-epic borrowing of Homer's stock dawn formula ("rosy-fingered Dawn"), deployed with deliberate bathos to describe the sunrise over a shabby lane where a mercenary marriage has just been consummated.