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Τοῦρνος

(Τοῦρνος), a statuary, known only by the single passage in which Tatian mentions his statue of the courtezan Lais. (Orat. ad Graec. 55, p. 121, ed. Worth: Λαὶ̄ς ἐπορνευσε, καὶ ὁ Τοῦρνος αὐτὴν ὑπόμνημα τῆς πορνείας ἐποίησεν.)

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.