sacrificial slaughter of a bull, taurobolium
sacrificial slaughter of a bull, IGRom. 4.494 (Pergam.), 499 (ibid.), IG 2(2).4842.4; in Lat. form taurobolium, CIL 10.1596 (Puteoli).
The corpus record
ταυρο-βόλιον
taurobolion · τό
sacrificial slaughter of a bull
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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