ταῦρος
From LSJ
ποίαν παρεξελθοῦσα δαιμόνων δίκην; (Sophocles, Antigone 921) → What law of the gods have I transgressed?
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
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., IG14.1307, 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.)
