ταῦρος, ὁ,
bull, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.481, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a sacrifice to Poseidon, [[ 11.728, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.181; also ταῦρος βοῦς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.389 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄπεχε τῆς βοὸς τὸν τ., oracularly of Agamemnon and his wife, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1126 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 priest of Poseidon Taureios, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 10.425c. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 a kind of Lycian boat with bull as figurehead, postulated to explain Europa's bull, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.83. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II the bull as a sign of the Zodiac, [[ 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.10, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 167, +others, “IG” 14.1307, “Supp.epigram” 7.363.8 (Dura-Europus, 2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III ={κοχώνη}, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.173, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.706] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: also the pudenda muliebria, [[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 9th c.AD+]: the male αἰδοῖον, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs] (Cf. Latin taurus, Lithuanian tauras, Slavonic tur[ucaron], etc.)