(τὸ Αὐράσιον ὄρος
: Jebel Auress
), a mountain of N. Africa, in the S. of Numidia, below the city of Lambesa.
It forms the SE. extremity of the so-called Middle Atlas, which it connects with the main chain of the Great Atlas. [ATLAS
] It divides the waters which flow into the basin of the lake Tritonis (Melrir
) from those which flow NE. into the basin of the Bagradas. (Procop. B. V.
2.13, 19, Aedif.
It appears to be the Audus Mons of Ptolemy (τὸ Αὖδον ὄρος,