. iv. 103; iii. 2, 57). [Chersonesus.] Taurianum (Traviano), a town of Bruttium,on the Via Popilia, twenty-three miles SE. ofVibo. Taurlni, a people of Liguria dwelling on theupper course of the Po, at the foot of the chief town was Taurasia, afterwardscolonised by Augustus, and called AugustaTaurinorum (Turin). (Pol. ii. 17, iii. 60; 38; App. Annib. 5; Strab. p. 204.) Tauris (Torcola), a small island off the coastof Hlyria, between Pharus and Corcyra ( 47). Taurisci, a Celtic people in Noricum,
. iv. 103; iii. 2, 57). [Chersonesus.] Taurianum (Traviano), a town of Bruttium,on the Via Popilia, twenty-three miles SE. ofVibo. Taurlni, a people of Liguria dwelling on theupper course of the Po, at the foot of the chief town was Taurasia, afterwardscolonised by Augustus, and called AugustaTaurinorum (Turin). (Pol. ii. 17, iii. 60; 38; App. Annib. 5; Strab. p. 204.) Tauris (Torcola), a small island off the coastof Hlyria, between Pharus and Corcyra ( 47). Taurisci, a Celtic people in Noricum, andprobably the old Celtic name of the entire popu-lation of the country. They were subsequentlycalled Norici by the Romans after their capitalNoreia. [Noricum.] TauroiB, Tauroentium iTavpdets, Tavpoiv-riov), a colony of th : Massaliots between Mas-silia and Telo Martius (Toulon). Its site ismarked by the modern Tarente. (Caes. ; Strab. pp. 180, 184.) Tauronienlum (Tavpo/ieviov: Tcuipontvlrns,Tauromenitanus: Taormina), a city on the E. TAURUS 921. Coin of Taoromenlam. Rrd cent. , head of Apollo, and star; rev., taypomenitan ;tripod. coast of Sicily, situated on the hill Taurus,from which it derived its name, between Mes-sana and Catana, and founded 358 byAndromachua with the remains of the inhabi-tant-, of Naxos, whose town had been destroyedby Dionysius nearly fifty years before. [Naxos,No. 2.] Tauromenium soon became a large andflourishing city; but in consequence of itsespousing the side of Sex. Pompey against Augustus, most of its inhabitants were expelledfrom the city, and their place supplied by acolony of veterans: hence we find, the towncalled Col. Augusta Tauromenitana. Fromthis time Tauromenium became a place ofsecondary importance. (Diod. xiv. 58, 96 ; 267 ; App. v. 103-111; Juv. v. 93.) Thehills in the neighbourhood produced excellentwine. There are still remains of the ancienttown, of which the most important is a splendidtheatr
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