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Tărentum

Tărentum · n

a town of Lower Italy

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What it meant

1. Tărentum — Lewis & Short

Tărentum, i, n. (poet. collat. form Tărentus, i, m., *ta/ras,

Sil. 12, 434; Sid. Carm. 5, 430), =

I a town of Lower Italy, founded by the Spartan Parthenians, now Taranto, Mel. 2, 4, 8; Flor. 1, 18; Cic. Sen. 4, 11 sq.; id. Brut. 18, 72; Hor. C. 3, 5, 56; id. S. 2, 4, 34; Ov. M. 15, 50 al.—Hence, Tărentīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tarentum, Tarentine: juventus, Liv. 24, 13, 2: juvenes, id. 25, 8, 3: sinus, Mel. 2, 4, 8: portus, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 101: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4: lanae, id. ib. 2, 2, 18; cf. oves, Col. 7, 2, 3; 7, 4, 1: castaneae, Plin. 15, 23, 25, § 93: sal, id. 31, 7, 41, § 84: purpura, Nep. ap. Plin. 9, 39, 63, § 137; cf. venenum, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 207.—As subst.: Tărentīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tarentum, the Tarentines, Cic. Arch. 3, 5; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135; Liv. 8, 27, 2; 25, 7, 10; Just. 3, 4, 11; 20, 1, 15.

2. Tarentum — Walde–Hofmann

Tarentum, -; n. und -us f. , Tarent*, auch „Name e. Kultstätte a. d. Marsfeld in Rom“ (seit Cic, Tarentinus „Tarentiner“ seit Varro): s. Weinstock Gl. 21, 40 f£, RE. s. v., Gnomon 12, 658 (zustimmend Kretschmer Cl. 30, 107), der die Kultstátte aus dem Etruskischen erklärt und meint, daß der urspr. Name ager Taraz zu Tdpag und weiter zu Tarentum entstellt wurde; etr.-lat. oder illyr.-lat. ? — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. Tarentum, p. 1557]

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