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Headword: *taurome/neion
Adler number: tau,163
Translated headword: Tauromeneion, Tauromenium
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A small city.[1] Also [sc. attested is] Tauromenite.[2]
Greek Original:
*taurome/neion: poli/xnion. kai\ *tauromenei/ths.
Notes:
[1] In NE Sicily; present-day Taormina. Perhaps best-known for being the birthplace of the historian Timaeus (tau 602).
[2] (i.e. the ethnikon of it.) The Suda's *tauromenei/ths (here and elsewhere) should more authentically be *tauromeni/tas; and an alternative found (in Diodorus) is Tauromenios.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 April 2003@08:31:34.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 25 September 2004@00:17:56.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 27 September 2004@04:04:34.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 12 August 2011@06:18:56.
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