The corpus record — Latin

taurobolior

to make a sacrifice of a bull

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k

What it meant

taurŏbŏlĭor — Lewis & Short

taurŏbŏlĭor, ātus,

I v. dep. n. [id.].

I Lit., to make a sacrifice of a bull (taurobolium; late Lat.): matris deum sacra accepit et tauroboliatus est, Lampr. Heliog. 7; Inscr. Orell. 2351.—

II Transf.: TAVROBOLIATA PETRA, set up to commemorate a taurobolium, Inscr. Orell. 2326.

In the wild

tauroboliatus Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 7

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.