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 1108 TASCIACA. Arricge, a branch of the Garonne. This Tarascon is in the Pays de Foix, and in a valley at the foot of the Pyrenees, which circumstance seems to indi- cate more probably the position of a small tribe or people than that of Tarascon on the Rhone. This Tnrascon on the Arriege is mentioned in middle acre documents under the name of Castrum Tarasco. Pliny's Tarusconienses, or whatever may be the true name, are enumerated among the Oppida Latina of Narbonensis. [G. L.] TASCIACA, a town in Gallia, placed by the Table between Avaricum (^Bourges) and Caesaro- dunum (Tours). The first station from Avaricum is Gabris, supposed to be Chabris on the Clier, and the next is Tasciaca, supposed to be Tezee, also on the Cher. But the number xxiiii. placed in the Table at the name of Tasciaca, which number should represent the distance from Chabris to Tezee, is nearly the distance between Tezee and Tours, and accordingly there is some error here. The Table gives no distance between Tasciaca and Caesarodunum. (D'Anville, Notice; Ukert, Gal- lien) [G. L.] TASCONI is the name of a Gallic people in the Narbonensis, mentioned by Pliny (iii. 4), as the name is read in five MSS. There is a small river Tescon or Tescou, which flows into the Tarn, near Montanhan. D'Anville quotes a life of S. The'o- dard, archbishop of Narbonne, which speaks of this river as called Tasco by the people of that part, and as the limit between the territories of the Tolosani, or people of Toulouse, and the Caturcenses, or peo- ple of Cahors. This is a valuable passage, for it shows how far north the Narbonensis, to which the territory of Toulouse belonged, extended in this part of its frontier; and it also confirms the conjec- ture about the northern limits of the Euteni Provin- ciales [Ruteni], who were also included in the Narbonensis. [G. L.] TASTA. [Datii.] TATTA LACUS (^ Tarra), a large salt lake on the frontiers between Lycaonia and Galatia; it had originally belonged to Phrygia, but was afterwards annexed to Lycaonia. Its waters were so impreg- nated with brine, that any substance dipped into it, was immediately incrusted with a thick coat of salt; even birds flying near the surface had their wings moi>tened with the saline particles, so as to become incapable of rising into the air, and to be easily caught. (Strab. xii. p. 568; Plin. xxxi. 41,45; Dios- corid. V. 126.) Stephanus Byz. (s. v. ho-riuov') speaks of a salt lake in Phrygia, which he calls Attaea ("Arraia), near which there was a town called Botieum. and which is probably the same as Lake Tatta. The Turks now call the lake Tiizla, and it still provides all the surrounding country with salt. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 70.) [L. S.] TAUA. [Taum.] TAUA (TaOa, Steph. B. s.v.; Taova, Ptol. iv. 5. § 50 ; Taba, Itin. Ant. p. 153), a town in Lower Aegypt, situated on the left bank of the Canopic arm of the Nile, S. of the city of Naucratis. It was the capital of the small Phthemphuthic Nome (Plin. V. 9. s. 9), and is supposed to be represented by the present Thaouah. (D'Anville, Memoire sur VEipipte. vol. i. p. 82.) [W. B. D.] TAUCHI'RA or TEUCHl'RA (Tauxc'pa, Herod, iv. 171, et alii; Teuxf'/"") Hierocl. p. 732; Plin. v. 5. s. 5, &c.), a town on the coast of Cyrenaica, founded by Cyrene. It lay 200 stadia W. of Pto- lemais. Under the Ptolemies it obtained the name TAURANIA. of Arsinoe. (Strab. xvii. p. 836; Mela, i. 8; Plin. I. c.) At a later period it became a Roman colony (Tab. Peut.), and was fortified by Justinian. (Pro- cop, de Aed. vi. 3.) Tauchira was particularly noted for the worship of Cybele, in honour of whom an annual festival was celebrated. (Synes. Ep. 3.) It is the same town erroneously written Tdpixa by Diodorus (xviii. 20). It is still called Tochira. (Cf. Delia Cella, Viagg. p. 198; Pacho, Voyage, p. 184.) [T. H. D.] TA'VIUJI {Taoviov, Tamov) or TAVIA, a town in the central part of eastern Galatia, at some dis- tance from the eastern bank of the river Halys, was the chief town of the Galatian tribe of the Trocmi, and a place of considerable commercial importance, being the point at which five or six of the great roads met.' (Plin. v. 42; Strab. xii. p. 567; Ptol. v. 4. § 9; Steph. B. s. v. "AyKvpa; Hierocl. p. 696; It. Ant. pp. 201, 203.) It contained a temple with a colossal bronze statue of Zeus. Leake (^Asia Minor, p. 311) is strongly inclined to believe that Tshorum occupies the site of ancient Tavium; but Hamilton (^Researches, i. p. 379, &c.) and most other geo- graphers, with much more probability, regard the ruins of Boghaz Kieui, 6 leagues to the north-west of Jazgat or Juzghat, as the remains of Tavium. They are situated on the slope of lofty and steep rocks of limestone, some of which are adorned with sculptures in relief. There are also the foundations of an immense building, which are believed to be remains of the temple of Zeus. (Comp. Hamilton in the Journal of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. vol. i. p. 74, foil.; Cv&mer, Asia Minor, ii. p. 98.) [L. S]. TAULA'NTII (TavXdvrioi, Ptoh iii. 13. §3), a people of Roman Illyria, in the neighbourhood of Epidamnus and Dyrrachium. In ancient times they were a powerful tribe, possessing several cities, and governed by their own kings, but subsequently they were reduced to subjection by the kings of Illyria, and at the time when the Romans waged war with Teuta they had sunk into insignificance. (Cf. Thucyd. i. 24 ; Arrian, Anab. i. 5 ; Mela, ii. 3 ; Liv. xlv. 26 ; Plin. iii. 22. s. 26.) Aristotle relates that they had a method of preparing mead from honey. (Mir. Ausc. t. ii. p. 716.) [T. H. D.] TAUM, TAUS, or TAVA (Taoia eifcrxufny, Ptol. ii. 3. § 5), a bay on the E. coast of Britannia Barbara. (Tac. Agr. 22.) Now Frith of Tag. [T. H. D.] TAUM (AD), a place in the SE. of Britiinnia Romana, in the territory of the Iceni (Tab. Peut.). Probably Yarmouth. [T. H. D.J TAUNUS MONS, a range of hills in western Germany, beginning near the river Nicer (Neckar), and running northward till they reach the point where the Moenus (Main) joins the Rhenus. (Pomp. Mela, iii. 3; Tac. Ann. i. 56, xii. 28.) This range of hills still bears its ancient name, though it is sometimes simply called the Hohe, that is, the Height, Taunus being probably the Celtic word Dun or Daun, which signifies a height. In various places along this range of hills Roman inscriptions have been found, in which Gives Tau- nenses are mentioned, from which it may be inferred that there once existed a town of the name of Taunus. (Orelli, Tnscript. nos. 181, 4981, 4982; Wilhelm, Germanien, p. 44.) [L. S.] TAURA'NIA, a town of Campania, mentioned only by Pliny (iii. 5. s. 9) as having in his time en- tirely disappeared, like Stabiae. He affords no clue to its position. The name of Taurania (Tavpavla) is found also in the older editions of Stephanus of