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Tauriscus

artists.

1. A sculptor of Tralles, who, with his brother Apollonius, made the celebrated Toro Farnese. [APOLLONIUS.] Pliny also mentions his Hermerotes, in the collection of Asinius Pollio. (H. N. 36.5. s. 4.10).

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.