Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Taurīni, Tauromenium

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Tauromenium

（Ταυρομένιον). Now Taormina; a city on the eastern coast of Sicily, situated on Mount Taurus, from which it derived its name,

Coin of Tauromenium.

and founded B.C. 358 by Andromachus with the remains of the inhabitants of Naxos. For the remains of the great stone theatre at this place, see Theatrum.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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