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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 he/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.
[2] Three and a half lines of late iambic verse: George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 11.
Keywords: definition; geography; imagery; 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.

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