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ταύρους (taurous)

ταύρους is an Ancient Greek form of ταῦρος, meaning “bull”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.230: καί οἱ χαλκόποδας ταύρους κάμε, χάλκεα δέ σφεων

Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.43.1: … γῳ γυναικῶν Ἰφιγένειαν οὐκ ἀποθανεῖν, γνώμῃ δὲ Ἀρτέμιδος Ἑκάτην εἶναι· τούτοις δὲ Ἡρόδοτος ὁμολογοῦντα ἔγραψε Ταύρους τοὺς πρὸς τῇ Σκυθικῇ θύειν παρθένῳ τοὺς ναυαγούς, φάναι δὲ αὐτοὺς τὴν παρθένον Ἰφιγένειαν εἶναι τὴν Ἀγαμέμνον …

All forms of ταῦρος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.