Tunēta, or Tunis, a town of Africa, near which Regulus was defeated and taken by Xanthippus. Livy, bk. 30, ch. 9.
Tungri, a name given to some of the Germans, supposed to live on the banks of the Maese, whose chief city, called Atuatuca, is now Tongeren. The river of the country is now the Spaw. Tacitus, Germania, bk. 2.
Caius Turanius, a Latin tragic poet in the age of Augustus. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 4, poem 16, li. 29.
Turba, a town of Gaul.
Turbo, a gladiator, mentioned Horace, bk. 2, satire 3, li. 310. He was of small stature, but uncommonly courageous.——A governor of Pannonia, under the emperors.
Turdetăni, or Turduti, a people of Spain, inhabiting both sides of the Bætis. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 6; bk. 28, ch. 39; bk. 34, ch. 17.
Turesis, a Thracian who revolted from Tiberius.
Turias, a river of Spain falling into the Mediterranean near Valentia, now the [♦]Guadalquiver.
[♦] ‘Guadalavier’ replaced with ‘Guadalquiver’
Turicum, a town of Gaul, now Zurich, in Switzerland.