Rosy-fingered dawn

02/04/12, 7:15 am, looking northeast

Homer's "rosy-fingered dawn" is a description from the Odyssey. In English, the quote is:

Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus rose and dressed himself. He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like
an immortal god.

Telemachus gathers all the people in Ithaca together and makes a wonderful speech about how he yearns for his father Odysseus' guidance and how his mother Penelope's suitors are eating (and drinking) him out of house and home. He is about to go searching for his father who has been away at war for twenty years. The suitors want to be first in line to marry Penelope because they assume that Odysseus is dead.

Aurora is the Latin word for dawn and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology. She brings the dawn with rosy fingers dropping dew.