The corpus record — Latin

Tauri

Tauri · m

the Taurians

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Where it lives

Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

Tauri — Lewis & Short

Tauri, ōrum, m.,

I the Taurians, a Thracian people, living in what is now Crimea, who sacrificed foreigners to Diana, Mel. 2, 1, 11; Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15; Ov. P. 3, 2, 45.— Hence, Taurĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Taurians, Taurian, Tauric: Chersonesus, Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85: terra, Ov. P. 1, 2, 80: sacra, id. Ib. 386: ara, id. Tr. 4, 4, 63.

In the wild

Taurorum Petronius, Satyricon 134
Tauros Minucius Felix, Octavius 6.1
Tauros Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.20.1
Taurorum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.1
Taurorum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.103.p4
Taurorum Seneca, Octavia 1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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.