Tauromenium
σταγόνες ὕδατος πέτρας κοιλαίνουσιν → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ταυρομένιον, τό.
People of Tauromenium: Ταυρομενῖται, οἱ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Taurŏmĕnĭum: (Taurŏmĭnĭum), ii, n.,
I a town in the eastern part of Sicily, now Taormina, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 88; Cic. Att. 16, 11, 7. — Called also Taurŏmĕnon, Ov. F. 4, 475. — Hence, Taurŏmĕnītā-nus, a, um (the o long in Sid. Carm. 9, 163), adj., of or belonging to Tauromenium, Tauromenian: civitas, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 13: euripus, Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 219: Charybdis, Luc. 4, 461; cf. Sil. 14, 256: colles, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25: vina, id. 14, 6, 8, § 66.—As subst.: Taurŏmĕnītāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Tauromenium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 66, § 160; 2, 5, 19, § 49.
