Turones

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Tŭrŏnes, um, m.,

I a people in Gallia Lugdunensis, on the Liger , near the site of the mod. Tours , Caes. B. G. 2, 35; 7, 4; Plin. 4, 18, 32, § 107.—Called afterwards Tŭrŏ-ni or Tŭrŏnĭi , ōrum, Tac. A. 3, 41; Caes. B. G. 7, 75; Hirt. B. G. 8, 46; Amm. 15, 11, 12.

II —Hence, Tŭrŏnĭcus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Turones , Turonic : ecclesiae episcopatus, of Tours , Sulp. Sev. Vit. S. Mart. 9.

IIITŭrŏnĭcensis , e, Ven. Misc. 8, 21.

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