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 TAG AST E. r TAGASTE, or TAGESTENSE OPP. (Plin. v. 4. s. 4), ;i town of Nuiii:(iia, whose ?pot is now marked by the ruins at 'fajill on the Oued Uamise or Sugerast, a tributary of the river Mejerda. {Itin. Ant. p. 44.) Tagaste is particularly distinguished bv liavins: been the birthplace of St. Augustine. (Aug. CoV- ii- 3.) [T.H:D.] TAGO'NIUS {Tayiivios, Plut. Sert. 17), a tri- butary of the Tagus in Hispania Tarraconensis, citlier the Tajuna or Ilenares. (Cf. Florez, Ksp. Sagr. v. p. 40; Ukert, ii. pt. i. p. 389.) [T. H. D.J TAGOKI. [Tagki.J TAGRI (Ta7poi, Ptol. iii. 5. § 25), a people of European Sariiiatia, on the borders of Ducia, and probably identical with the Tagori of Plinv (vi. 7. ». 7) and Jornandes {Get. 4). [T. H. D.] TAGUS {T&yus, Ptol. ii. 5. § 4), one of the principal rivers of Spain, being considerably larger tlian the Anas and liaving its sources between Mounts Orospeda and Idubeda, in the country of the Celtiberi. (Strab. iii. pp. 1.39, 152, 162.) After a tolerably straight course of upwards of 300 miles in a westerly direction, it falls into the At- lantic ocean below Olisippo, where it is 20 stadia broad, and capable of bearing the largest sliips. It was na'igable as far up as Jloron for smaller ves- sels. According to Strabo, at flood tides it over- flowed the country at its mouth for a circumference of 150 stadia. It was celebrated for its fish and oysters (Strab. ih. Mart. x. 78), and likewise for its geld sand (Plin. iv. 22. s. 35 ; Mela, iii. 1 ; Ca- lull. XX. 30; Ov. Met. ii. 251, &c.): of which last, liowever, so little is now to be found that it hardly repavs the amphibious paupers who earn a pre- 1 .uiuus living by seeking for it. (Ford's Iland- li<i(ik of Spain, p. 487; Dillon, i. p. 257.) The Tagonius alone, is named as a tributary. The Tagus is still called Tajo in Spain, Tejo in Portugal. (Cf. Liv. xxi. 5, xxvii. 19 ; Plin. iii. 3. s. 4, viii. 42. s. 67 ; Sen. ThyeM. 352. &c.) [T. H. D.] TAHPA'NIS or TEHAPHE'NES (Jerem. xliii. 7, xliv. 1; £'^e^^ XXX. 18; is Td<pvas, EXX.), is supposed to be the same place with the Daphne of PeJusium of the Greeks. It was the seat of a gar- rison under the native and the Persian kings of Aegypt (Herod, ii. 30), and was probably a place of considerable strength and importance, since it com- manded the high road to Syria (Strab. xvii. p. 802). According to the Hebrew writers, Tahpanis was also occasionally a royal residence in Pharaonic times. In the reign of Psammitichus (is.c. 670, foil.) the troops quartered at Tahpanis, in common with the rest of the native Aegypt ian army, offended by the king's favour to his Carian and Greek mer- cenaries, abandoned their countiy, and established tlieniselves in IJie Kcgio Dodecaschoenus S. of Syene (Diodor. i. 67). From the Itineraries it appears that Daplme or Talqianiswas 16 Roman miles from Pelnsium. Tel-deftnneli, lying nearly in a direct line between the modern Sala-kccch and Pelnsium, is supiwsed to be on the site of Tahpanis. [W.B.D.] 'I'ALAIiRIGA (to Takagpiya, App. I/up. 73), a town of Lusitania, between Eminium and Lango- briga. (hin. Ant. p. 421 ; Plin. ii. 5. s. 7, iv. 21. s. 35.) Variously identified with Cacia, Aveiro, Talnvera de la Reyna, and Villarinho. [T. H. D.] TALA'BKOCA {TaKa%p6K-n, Strab. xi. p. 508), one of the four principal towns of Hyrcania noticed by Strabo. It is j.eriiaps the same place that is called Tambrax by Polybius (x. 31). Its site cannot now be identified. [V.l TALMIS. 1085 TALACO'RY (JaXaKwpv, Ptol. vii. 4. § 7), a port on the nortli-western side of the island of Taprobane or Ceylon. It is described a.s an em- porium, and Las, probably, derived its name from the promontory of Cory, which was opposite to it, on the mainland. It appears to have been also called Aacote ('Aa/fdrrj). [V^-] TALADUSII (TaAaSouo-ioi, Ptol. iv. 2. § 17), a people in the north part of Mauretania Caesari- ensis. [T. H. D.] TALAEUS MONS. [Tallaeus.] TALAMINA {TaKafxiv-n, Ptol. ii. 6. § 27), a town of the Seurri in Galiaecia. [T. H. D.] TALARES (TdAapes), a Molossian peojile of Epeirus, extinct in the time of Strabo (ix. p. 434). TALAURA (TciAaypa), a mountain fortress in Pontus to which Mithridates withdrew with his most precious treasures, which were afterwards found there by Lucullus. (Dion Cass. sxxv. 14; Appian, M'dhr. 115.) As the pl.ace is not men- tioned by other writers, some suppose it to have been the same as Gaziura, the modern Tuurldial which is perched upon a lofty isolated rock. (Ha- milton, Researches, vol. i. p. 360.) [L. S.] TALBENDA (TaAgefSo or Tago(/5a), a town in the interior of Piaidia, noticed only bv Ptolemy (v. 5. § 8;. [L. S.] TA'LETUM. [Laconia, p. 108, b.] TALIA {Ithi. Ant. ^.-219,), orTALlATA {Not. Imp.), erroneously called Tavdrts by Ptolemy (iii. 9. § 4), Tabata by the Geogr. Rav. (iv. 7), and Faliata in the Tab. Peut. A j)lace in Upper Moesia, between Novae and Egeta. Variously identified with Tatalia, Gogerdsinlik, and a place we-M All Porecs. [T. H. D.] TALICUS, a river of Scythia intra Imaum. (Amm. Marc, xxiii. C. § 63.) [T. H. D.] TALLAEUS or TALAEUS MONS (Bockh, Corp. Inscr. Graec. vol. ii. p. 423; Hesych. s. v.), the station of Talus, the mythical man of bronze, and the guardian of the island of Crete. The well- known inscription which deplores the loss of Artemis, the chaste wife of Salvius Menas, is now buried by the mass of earth and stones heaped up at the en- trance of the stalactitic cavern of Melidhoni. Thi.s grotto, memorable in modern times for the massacre of the Cretan Christians by the Mohammedans, is identified from the inscription with the .spot where in ancient times human victims were presented before the statue of Talus. (Pashley, Travels, vol. i. pp. 126—139.) [E. Ii. J.] TALMEN (ToA^T)!', Arrian, Indlc. c. 29), a port of Gedrosia at which the fleet of Nearchus found a secure harbour. It is not clear what iilaco now may be identified with it, anil diti'erent geo- graphers have held different oi)inions. Vincent {Voya/je ofNcarchm, i. p. 271) thinks it is the bay formed by the mouth of a small river called by Ptolemy Candriaces or llydriaces (vi. 8. § 8). It was probably close to the modern town, Cliniibar Tiz and Punig. (Cf. Gosselin, iii. j). 148.) [V.j TALMIS {It. Anton, p. 161; Olympiodor. up. Photium, p. 62, ed. Bekker), a town in the Regio Dodecaschoenus, S. of Philae, from which it was five days' journey distant, situated in hit. 'l-i^ .'50' N., and conseiiuently innnediately under the tmpic of Cancer, 'hilmis stood on tlie western bank nf the Nile, and is reiirescnted by the mt)deni KuUibsche. The Libyan hills which rise innnediately behind thfr town afforded an inexhaustible .supply of materials for building, and the ancient (juarries are still visible