Tauri

, a people of European Sarmatia, who inhabited Tauric a Cher sones us, and sacrificed all strangers to Diana. The statue of this godde , which they believed to have fallen down from heaven, was carried away to Sparta by Iphigenia and Orestes. Strabo , bk. 12 .— Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 99 , . — Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 1 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 16 .— Euripi des , I phi gene i a .— Ovid , ex Ponto , bk. 1 , poem 2, li. 80 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 14 , li. 260 .— Juvenal , satire 15, li. 116 .