ταῦρος

A. bull, Il. 2.481, etc.; as a sacrifice to Poseidon, 11.728, Od. 13.181; also ταῦρος βοῦς Il. 17.389; ἄπεχε τῆς βοὸς τὸν τ., oracularly of Agamemnon and his wife, A. Ag. 1126 (lyr.).

2. priest of Poseidon Taureios, Ath. 10.425c.

3. a kind of Lycian boat with bull as figurehead, postulated to explain Europa's bull, Poll. 1.83.

II. the bull as a sign of the Zodiac, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.10, Arat. 167, al., IG 14.1307, Supp.Epigr. 7.363.8 (Dura-Europus, ii A.D.), etc.

III. = κοχώνη, Poll. 2.173, Gal. 14.706: also the pudenda muliebria, Phot.: the male αἰδοῖον, Suid. (Cf. Lat. taurus, Lith. tauras, Slav. tur[ucaron], etc.)