Tauroce'phalus
*Tauroke/falos, (also
Ταυρόκρανος,
Ταυρομέτωπος, &c.), a surname of Dionysus in the Orphic mysteries. (Orph.
Hymn. 51. 2 ; comp. TAURUS.)
It also occurs as a surname of rivers and the ocean, who were symbolically represented as bulls, to indicate their fertilising effect upon countries. (Eurip.
Iphig. Aul. 275, Orest. 1378 ; Aelian,
Ael. VH 2.33;
Hor. Carm. 4.14, 25.)
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