Taurocephalus
Ταυροκέφαλος
Ταυροκέφαλος, (also Ταυρόκρανος, Ταυρομέτωπος, &c.), a surname of Dionysus in the Orphic mysteries. (Orph. Hymn. 51. 2; comp. TAURUS.) It also occurs as a surname of rivers and the ocean, who were symbolically represented as bulls, to indicate their fertilising effect upon countries. (Eurip. Iphig. Aul. 275, Orest. 1378; Aelian, Ael. VH 2.33; Hor. Carm. 4.14, 25.)
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.