Tarentum, a town of Magna Graecia, on a river of the same name, Hdt. 1.24, Th. 6.34, etc.: also pr. n. of the river-hero, Str. 6.3.2, Paus. 10.10.8; Τάραντος ἀγλαὸν ὕδωρ Orac. ap. D.S. 8.21:—hence Τᾰραντῖνος, η, ον, Tarentine, ὁ Τ. κόλπος Str. 6.1.11; ἡ -νη (sc. χώρα) Id. 6.1.4; Τ., ὁ, a Tarentine, Hdt. 3.138, etc.; Ταραντίνων πολιτεία Arist. Fr. 590:—cf. Ταραντῖνοι, Ταραντῖνον.
The corpus record
Τάρας
*taras · ὁ
Tarentum, Tarentine, a Tarentine
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Where it lives
- Epistles 4 · 2.36/10k
- History 9 · 0.6/10k
- Politics 3 · 0.46/10k
- Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
- Laws 2 · 0.19/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
Tarentum, Tarentine, a Tarentine
In the wild
- Τάραντι · Taranti Aristotle, Politics 1291b (DIORISIS sentence 1481)
- Τάραντι · Taranti Aristotle, Politics 1303a (DIORISIS sentence 1863)
- Τάραντος · Tarantos Aristotle, Politics 1306b (DIORISIS sentence 1970)
- Τάραντι · Taranti Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7324)
- Τάραντος · Tarantos Herodotus, Histories 1.24.2 (DIORISIS sentence 145)
- Τάραντι · Taranti Herodotus, Histories 1.24.7 (DIORISIS sentence 157)
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Where it came from
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