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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV |
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TAURI , the earliest known inhabitants of the mountainous south
coast
Herodotus
population perhaps connected with some Caucasus stock; in spite of the resemblance of the name Taurisci they are not likely to be Celts. They were famous in the ancient world for their maiden goddess, identified by the Greeks with Artemis Tauropolos or Iphigeneia, whom the goddess was said to have brought to her shrine at the moment when she was to have been sacrificed at Aulis. Orestes sought his sister
fell
century s.e. we find the Tauri dependent allies
Portus
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