place
Tauromenium
also: Taormina
A town on the east coast of Sicily (modern Taormina); Seneca reports the belief that objects swallowed by Charybdis resurfaced off its shore.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.79.1 Tauromenium
A town on Sicily's east coast (modern Taormina); local lore held that whatever Charybdis swallowed near the strait of Messina resurfaced off its shore.