Targines

• a river of Magna Graecia, Plin. 3, 10, 15, § 96 (al. Thagines or Thargines).

TARGINES (Tacino), a small river of Bruttium, mentioned only by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.10. s. 15) among the rivers on the E. coast of that peninsula. It is probably the stream now called the Tacino, which rises in the mountains of the Sila, and falls into the Gulf of Squillace (Sinus Scylaceus).