TAURU´NUM
TAURU´NUM (
Ταύρουνον), a strong fortress in Lower Pannonia, at the point where the Savus joins the Danubius, on the road from Sirmium to Singidunum.
It was the station of a small fleet of the Danubius. (
Plin. Nat. 3.28;
Ptol. 2.16.4;
It. Ant. pp. 131, 241;
Tab. Peut.; Geogr. Rav. 4.19, where it is called Taurynum.) Its site is now occupied by the fortress of
Semlin, opposite to
Belgrade. [
L.S]