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Τάρας

*taras · ὁ

Tarentum, Tarentine, a Tarentine

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Where it lives

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What it meant — LSJ

Tarentum, Tarentine, a Tarentine

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.

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Where it came from

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