Auge (Αὔγη) is the Greek word for "brightness" or "sunbeam." The princess of Tegea, priestess of Athena — mother of the hero Telephus by Heracles. Her father, fearing a prophecy that her son would kill him, exposed her in a chest at sea.
Featured in Euripides' lost play Auge.
Auge reduces to seven — the number of Greek brightness.