taur

Updated: June 11, 2025

Based upon mighty massive foundations of brown and green trap, the undulating junction being perfectly defined by a horizontal white line, the capping of sandstone rises regular as if laid in courses, with a huge rampart falling perpendicular upon the natural slope of its glacis. This bounding curtain is called the Taur el-Shafah, the "inaccessible part of the Lip-range."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2

Taur. 386 ff., where Iphigenia rejects the gods who demand human sacrifice: These tales be false, false as those feastings wild Of Tantalus, and gods that tare a child. This land of murderers to its gods hath given Its own lust. Evil dwelleth not in heaven. Yet just before she has accepted the loves of Zeus and Leto without objection.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion