Taurus Palus
Taurus Palus an étang on the coast of Narbonensis, west of the delta of the Rhone. It is named in the verses of Avienus, quoted in the article FECYI JUGUM; and to the verses there cited may be added the following verse:-- Taurum paludem namque gentici (gentili) vocant.
But I. Vossius in his edition of Mela (2.5, note) writes the verses of Avienus thus:--
In usque Taphrum pertinet,
Taphron paludem namque gentili vocant;
an alteration or corruption which D'Anville justly condemns, for the étang is still named Taur, or vulgarly Tau.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.