The corpus record — Latin

Tauromenium

Tauromenium · n

a town in the eastern part of Sicily

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Where it lives

Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Taurŏmĕnĭum — Lewis & Short

Taurŏmĕnĭum (Taurŏmĭnĭum), ii, n.,

I a town in the eastern part of Sicily, now Taormina, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88; Cic. Att. 16, 11, 7. — Called also Taurŏmĕnon, Ov. F. 4, 475. — Hence, Taurŏmĕnītā-nus, a, um (the o long in Sid. Carm. 9, 163), adj., of or belonging to Tauromenium, Tauromenian: civitas, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 13: euripus, Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219: Charybdis, Luc. 4, 461; cf. Sil. 14, 256: colles, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25: vina, id. 14, 6, 8, § 66.—As subst.: Taurŏmĕnītāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tauromenium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160; 2, 5, 19, § 49.

In the wild

Tauromenium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.8.p1
Tauromenium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.8.p1
Tauromenium Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.11.7

Where it came from

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