Tauri, and Taurilia, Playes made in the honoure of infernall Gods.
Taurus, A great and famous mountaine whiche beginneth at the Indian sea, and rising into the north, passeth by Asia, vnto the fenne or meere called Mæ otis, and bordereth vpon a great number of Realmes. Also the hill called Caucalus, is part thereof.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Tauri, ōrum, m., the Taurians, a Thracian people, living in what is now Crimea, who sacrificed foreigners to Diana, Mel. 2, 1, 11; Cic. Rep. 3, 9, 15; Ov. P. 3, 2, 45.— Hence, Taurĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Taurians, Taurian, Tauric: Chersonesus, Plin. 4, 12, 26, 85: terra, Ov. P. 1, 2, 80: sacra, id. Ib. 386: ara, id. Tr. 4, 4, 63.