Tigris




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    Tigris.   Tiger.----This animal, observes Spanheim (Pr. i. 207), is not to be confounded with the leopard or the panther. His skin is marked, not with round spots like theirs, but with long stripes.----The tiger is the symbol of Bacchus. On denarii of the Vibia family one is present at a sacrifice to Liber Pater.----He is often seen at the feet of Bacchus on coins of Roman colonies. Havercamp gives a contorniate medal of Nero, on which the god of wine is figured, seated in a car drawn by Tigers.
    Tigris----a celebrated river in Asia, which, rising in the greater Armenia, and flowing thence in a southerly direction, formed the eastern boundary of Mesopotamia (a tract of country lying, as its name signifies, between two rivers), the equally renowned Euphrates washing it on the western side. Below the site of the ancient Babylon, the Tigris forms a confluence with the Euphrates, and their streams, thus united, enter the Sinus Persicus, or Persian Gulf.----The extension of the Roman empire to the right bank of the Tigris, by the intervening regions, is at once recorded by the legend and symbolized by the type of a fine first brass medal of Trajan, which represents this river with the Euphrates. The emperor is standing between the personifications of these two mighty streams, with the figure of an Armenian at his feet.----See ARMENIA ET MESOPOTAMIA IN POTESTATEM P. R. REDACTAE.

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