Tarnow
a town of Galicia, Poland, 47% miles E. of Cracow, on the navigable Dunjec river, not far from the mouth of the Vistula. It is the seat of a bishop, and has a town house and cathedral with curious statues of the princes of Ostrog and Tarnow. The chief trade before the World War was in corn, linen, leather, TARQUINIUS and timber. Pop. about 37,000. See WORLD WAR.
TARO (Colocasia macrorhiza, or Arum esculentum), a plant of the natural order Araceæ, of the same genus with the Cocco (q. v.) or Eddoes, and cultivated for its roots, which are a principal article of food in the South Sea Islands. A pleasant flour is made of taro. The plant has no stalk; broad, heart-shaped leaves produced in a spathe. The leaves are spring the root; and the flower is used as spinach.
TARPEIA (-pē'yä), one of the vestal virgins of Rome, the daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill. She agreed to open the gates to the Sabines if they would give her "what they wore on their arms" (meaning their bracelets). The Sabines, "keeping their promise to the ear, crushed her to death with their shields, and she was buried in that part of the hill called the TARPEIAN ROCK (q. v.).