The corpus record

ταύρεος

taureos

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

= ταύρειος, κόλλα IG 2(2).1672.161; τὰ τ. τύμπανα Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 37.16; τ. κέρατα Orph. Fr. 168.14; ζωστήρια PLond. 2.402v. 8 (ii B.C.).

epith. of Poseidon in Boeotia (cf. ταῦρος I.2), Hes. Sc. 104, because bulls were offered to him at Onchestus, acc. to Sch.; written Ταύρειος, Hsch. s.v. ταῦρος; Ταύριος, Suid.

In the wild

ταύρεος · taureos Shield of Heracles 103–105

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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