ταῦρον (tauron)

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

Found 185 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.272: ταῦρον ἅλις δμῶες· τοὶ δὲ ξύλα κάγκανα χαλκῷ

Plutarch, Theseus 19.2: δήμων δὲ καὶ τὸν Ταῦρον ἀναιρεθῆναί φησι τὸν τοῦ Μίνω στρατηγόν, ἐν τῷ λιμένι διαναυμαχοῦντα τοῦ Θησέως ἐκπλέοντος. ὡς δὲ Φιλόχορος ἱ …

Strabo, Geography 14.5.11: … , ἣν μέχρι τοῦ Κύδνου κατηγάγομεν, τὴν αὐτὴν ἀποφαίνομεν τῇ μέχρι Ἰσσοῦ, οὐδὲν παρὰ τοῦτο ποιούμενοι, καὶ τὸν Ταῦρόν φαμεν διήκειν ἐπʼ εὐθείας τῇδε τῇ γραμμῇ μέχρι τῆς Ἰνδικῆς.

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.