Lat. taurura e Gregorio di Nazianzo, Carm. 2, 1, 11, 126

It is noteworthy that the text of Veg. mil. 4, 39, 4-5, in which the author deals with the dangers of navigation in autumn, has not yet been published correctly. Lang, Önnerfors and Reeve have all discarded the reading taurura found in the most faithful witnesses, only to accept what is found in the less reliable manuscripts: Taurus or Taurus a. Instead, Taurura is quite obviously the correct reading, because it is nothing more than a transliteration of the Greek Ταυρουρά resulting from haplography of Ταύρου οὐρά. In the Greek astronomical texts ἡ οὐρά τοῦ Ταύρου(Cauda Tauri in Latin) refers to ‘The Bull’s Tail’, namely the star cluster of the Pleiades. An appendix to the article deals with Greg. Naz. 2, 1, 11, 126, where the tradition is divided between Ταύρου τιν’ οὐράν and Ταύρου τὴν οὐράν.