The character of “Audrey,” that of a female fool, should not have been assumed [i.e. by Miss Pope, in her last appearance in public]; the last line of the farewell address was, “And now poor Audrey bids you all farewell” (May 26, 1808).—­ James Smith, Memoirs, etc. (1840).

AUGUSTA, mother of Gustavus Vasa.  She is a prisoner of Christian II. king of Denmark, but the king promises to set her free if she will induce her son to submission.  Augusta refuses, but in the war which follows, Gustavus defeats Christian, and becomes king of Sweden.—­H.  Brooke, Gustavus Vasa (1730).

Augusta, a title conferred by the Roman emperors on their wives, sisters, daughters, mothers, and even concubines.  It had to be conferred; for even the wife of an Augustus was not an Augusta until after her coronation.

1.  EMPRESSES.  Livia and Julia were both Augusta; so were Julia (wife of Tiberius), Messalina, Agrippina, Octavia, Poppaea, Statilia, Sabina, Domitilla, Domitia, and Faustina.  In imperials the wife of an emperor is spoken of as Augusta:  Serenissima Augusta conjux nostra; Divina Augusta, etc.  But the title had to be conferred; hence we read, “Domitian uxorem suam Augustam jussit nuncupari;” and “Flavia Titiana, eadem die, uxor ejus [i.e. Pertinax] Augusta est appellata.”

2.  MOTHERS or GRANDMOTHERS.  Antonia, grandmother of Caligula, was created Augusta.  Claudius made his mother Antonia Augusta after her death.  Heliogabalus had coins inscribed with “Julia Maesa Augusta,” in honor of his grandmother;

Mammaea, mother of Alexander Severus, is styled Augusta on coins; and so is Helena, mother of Constantine.

3.  SISTERS.  Honorius speaks of his sister as “venerabilis Augusta germananostra.”  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 HARE, a woman with a native genius for popularity, in Mrs. A.D.T.  Whitney’s novel Hitherto.

AUGUSTINA, the Maid of Saragossa.  She was only twenty-two when, her lover being shot, she mounted the battery in his place.  The French, after a siege of two months, were obliged to retreat, August 15, 1808.

Such were the exploits of the Maid of Saragossa, who by her valor 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.—­Lord Byron.

AULD ROBIN GRAY was written (1772) 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.