. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ainly no cityof the name in historical times. Virgil applies theepithet Saturiam (as an adjective) to Tarentumitself (Georg. ii. 197; Serv. ad he. : many com-mentators, however, consider saturi from satur TARETICA to be the true reading), and Horace speaks of Sa-turaumua cabellus as equivalent to Tarcntine.(Sat i. 6. 59.) The memory of the locality is pre-served by a watch-tower on the coast, about sevenmiles SE. of Tarentum, which is still called TorreH (RomadeUi, w\. i. p. 294; Zannoni Cartadel Rtyiw di NapoK). (Concerning the history and a
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ainly no cityof the name in historical times. Virgil applies theepithet Saturiam (as an adjective) to Tarentumitself (Georg. ii. 197; Serv. ad he. : many com-mentators, however, consider saturi from satur TARETICA to be the true reading), and Horace speaks of Sa-turaumua cabellus as equivalent to Tarcntine.(Sat i. 6. 59.) The memory of the locality is pre-served by a watch-tower on the coast, about sevenmiles SE. of Tarentum, which is still called TorreH (RomadeUi, w\. i. p. 294; Zannoni Cartadel Rtyiw di NapoK). (Concerning the history and ancient institutionsi:entum, see lkvne, Ojiuscula, vol. ii. —232; and Lorentz, de Civitate VtUrum Ta-raitinorum, 4to. Lips. 1S33. The present stateand localities are described by Swinburne, vol. i. ) — 270; Keppel Craven, Southern Tour, —190; and Romanelli, vol. i. pp. 282—289; butfrom the absence of existing remains, the antiquitiesof Tarentum have scarcely received as much atten-tion as they deserve.) [E. II. B.]. COINS OF TARENTUM. TARETICA (Tape-run), or Tope-run; &tcpa, 9. § 9), a headland of Asiatic Sarmatia in thePontus Euxinus, and in the neighbourhood of themodern town of Sudaski. [T. H. D.] TAIIGINES (Torino), a small river of Bruttium,mentioned only by Pliny (iii. 10. s. 15) among therivers on the E. coast of that peninsula. It is pro-bably the .stream now called the Torino, which risesin the mountains of the Silo, and falls into the Gulflace (Sinus Scylaceus). [E. H. B.] TARlCHEAE or TARICHAEAE (TapiX««,xvi. p. 764 ; Joseph. Vita, 32, 54, 73 ;Topixorot, Joseph. B. J. iii. 10. § 1, et alibi ;Tapixea, Steph. B. s. v. ; Taricheae, Suet. Tit. 4 ;Tarichea, Plin. v. 15 : Eth. Tapixfar-ns), a city inLower Galilee situated below a mountain at thesouthern end of the lake of Tiberias, and 30 stadiafrom the city of Tiberias itself. (Joseph. B. J. § 1.) It derived its name from its extensivemanufactories for salting fish. (Strab. /.
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