Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . TESSUS their hands ever since. The town still exists under Jthe name of Tersoos, and though greatly reduced, Iit is still the chief town of that part of important remains of antiquity are now to beseen there, but the country around it is as delightfuland as productive as ever. I Tarsus was not only a great commercial city, but Iat the same time a seat of learning andphilosophy, and Strabo (xiv. p. 673, &c.) gives along list of eminent men in philosophy and litera- ?ture who added to its lustre ; but none of them is Imore illustriou
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . TESSUS their hands ever since. The town still exists under Jthe name of Tersoos, and though greatly reduced, Iit is still the chief town of that part of important remains of antiquity are now to beseen there, but the country around it is as delightfuland as productive as ever. I Tarsus was not only a great commercial city, but Iat the same time a seat of learning andphilosophy, and Strabo (xiv. p. 673, &c.) gives along list of eminent men in philosophy and litera- ?ture who added to its lustre ; but none of them is Imore illustrious than the Apostle Paul, who belonged Ito one of the many Jewish families settled at Tarsus.(^Acts, s. 30, xi. 30, xv. 22, 41, xxi. 39; V. 8. § 7; Diod. xiv. 20; Hierocl. p. 704;Stadiasm. Mar. BI. § 156; Leake, Asia Minor, ; Russegger, Reisen in Asien, i. 1. p. 395, foil., 639, foil.) Another town of the name of Tarsus is said tohave existed in Bithynia (Steph. B. s. v.), butnothing is known about it. [L. S.]. COIN OF TARSUS. TARTARUS (JTartnrv), a river of Venetia, nearthe borders of Gallia Transpadana. It is inter-mediate between the Athesis (^Adige) and the Padus(Po); and its waters are now led aside by artificialcanals partly into the one river and partly into theother, so that it may be called inditFerently a tri-butary of either. In ancient times it seems to havehad a recognised mouth of its own, though this waseven then wholly artificial, so that Pliny calls it the fossiones Philistinae, quod alii Tartarum vocant.(Plin. iii. 16. s. 20.) In the upper part of itscourse it formed, as it still does, extensive marshes,of which Caecina, the general of Vitellius, skilfullyavailed himself to cover his position near Hostilia.(Tac. Hist. iii. 9.) The river is here still calledthe Tartaro : lower down it assumes the name ofCanal Bianco, and after passing the town of Adria,and sending off part of its right and leftinto the Po and Adige, discharges the
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