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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
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minor
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Etruscan deity,
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grandson of
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Jupiter, and founder of the
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art of
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divination in
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Etruria . According to the
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story, during the ploughing of a
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field near
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Tarquinii a being of boyish
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appearance sprang out of the furrow . The shouts of the ploughman (Tarchon) brought to the spot all the
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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
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time handed down orally, but were subsequently committed to
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writing, and formed the twelve books of
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Tages, containing a
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complete
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system of Etruscan
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lore . See
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Cicero, De Div. ii . 23;
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Ovid,
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Melon. xv . 553;
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Festus, s.v.;
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Mommsen, Hist. of
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Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. i. ch . 12 .

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