Roman writers rarely imitated Hesiod and later Greek poets by naming Aurōra as the mother of the Anemoi (the Winds), who were the offspring of Astraeus, the father of the stars.

From Homer's Iliad: Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of Okeanos, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her.

Ovid's Heroides (16.201-202), Paris names his well-known family members, among which Aurōra's lover as follows: A Phrygian was the husband of Aurora, yet she, the goddess who appoints the last road of night, carried him away Virgil mentions in the fourth book of his Aeneid:[6] Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heav'ns o'erspreadRutilius Claudius Namatianus mentions in his 5th century poem De reditu suo:[7] Saffron Aurora had brought forward her fair-weather team: the breeze offshore tells us to haul the sail-yards up.Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (I.i), Montague says of his lovesick son Romeo: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, Away from the light steals home my heavy son...

In "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley: From Tithon's bed now might Aurora rise, Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies, While a pure stream of light o'erflows the skies.

I tumble down on my knees Fill my mouth with snow The way it melts I wish to melt into you In Chapter 8 of Charlotte Brontë's Villette, Madame Beck fires her old Governess first thing in the morning and is described by the narrator, Lucy Snowe: All this, I say, was done between the moment of Madame Beck's issuing like Aurōra from her chamber, and that in which she coolly sat down to pour out her first cup of coffee.