Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bosporian \Bos*po"ri*an\, a. [L. Bosporus, G. Bo`sporos, lit.,
   ox-ford, the ox's or heifer's ford, on account of Io's
   passage here as a heifer; fr. boy^s ox, heifer + po`ros
   ford.]
   Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus.

         The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them
         tribute and exterminated the Taurians.   --Tooke.