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Headword:
*tau=ros
Adler number: tau,168
Translated headword: Taurus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A name of a mountain.[1]
"For it is naturally like a bull, leaping and tossing its hind feet upwards; then raising its neck in a curve up from below."[2]
Greek Original:*tau=ros: o)/noma o)/rous. tau/rw| ga/r e)sti sumfuw=s ei)kasme/nos skirtw=nti kai\ r(iptou=nti tou\s o)pisqi/ous po/das pro\s u(/yos: ei)=ta dh\ to\n au)xe/na kurtw=s u(pecairou=nti.
Notes:
For this headword see also
tau 166 (proper name) and
tau 167.
[1] Mountains, more precisely, extending across much of southern Asia Minor and beyond; see E.H. Warmington in OCD(4) s.v. and Barrington Atlas map 89 grids C2-F3.
[2] Three and a half lines of late iambic verse: George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr. 11 Tartaglia, on the formidable Taurus mountain range. Tartaglia notes (228-229, note 87) that the Pisidian's fragments 11-13 (cf.
alphaiota 97 and
kappa 2043) relate to moments during the march towards Persia prior to Heraclius's traversal of the Taurus Mountains (autumn 627). On Heraclius, see generally
eta 465.
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history; imagery; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Katee Dean on 16 July 2013@06:23:38.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 17 July 2013@00:27:28.
David Whitehead (supplied notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 17 July 2013@03:13:18.
David Whitehead on 7 January 2014@05:52:16.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 5 August 2014@07:33:50.
Catharine Roth (tweaked reference) on 27 November 2014@00:12:07.
Ronald Allen (added map reference n.1) on 11 December 2025@13:21:10.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth, augmented n.2) on 14 December 2025@12:15:49.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 14 December 2025@12:58:51.
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