The corpus record — Latin

Tagastē

Tagastē · f

a city in Numidia

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What it meant

Tagastē — Lewis & Short

Tagastē, ēs, f.,

I a city in Numidia, south-east of Hippo Regius, the birthplace of St. Augustine, now the ruins of Tagilt, Itin. Anton. p. 44, 6.—Hence, Tagasten-sis, e, adj., of Tagaste: oppidum, Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30: municeps, Aug. Conf. 2, 3.

Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.