Tāprŏbănē

I. an island in the Indian Ocean, now Ceylon, Mel. 3, 7, 7; Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 81; Ov. P. 1, 5, 80; Avien. Perieg. 777.—Also written Tā-prŏbăna, App. de Mundo, p. 60, 16.