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TAGES (Tages)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 356 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAGES (Tages)  , a See also:minor See also:Etruscan deity, See also:grandson of See also:Jupiter, and founder of the See also:art of See also:divination in See also:Etruria . According to the See also:story, during the ploughing of a See also:field near See also:Tarquinii a being of boyish See also:appearance sprang out of the furrow . The shouts of the ploughman (Tarchon) brought to the spot all the See also:people of Etruria, whom the boy proceeded to instruct in the art of divination . Having done this, he suddenly disappeared . His instructions were for some See also:time handed down orally, but were subsequently committed to See also:writing, and formed the twelve books of See also:Tages, containing a See also:complete See also:system of Etruscan See also:lore . See See also:Cicero, De Div. ii . 23; See also:Ovid, See also:Melon. xv . 553; See also:Festus, s.v.; See also:Mommsen, Hist. of See also:Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. i. ch . 12 .

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