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Taurus

Ταῦρος

(Ταῦρος), a bull, occurs:

1. as a surname of Dionysus. (Eurip. Bacch. 918; Athen. 11.476; Plut. Quaest. Graec. 36; Lycoph. Cass. 209.)

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.