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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 minor
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Etruscan deity, grandson of
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Jupiter, and founder of the
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art of divination in
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Etruria . According to the story, during the ploughing of a field near Tarquinii a being of boyish 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 time handed down orally, but were subsequently committed to 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 lore . See
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Cicero, De Div. ii . 23; Ovid, Melon. xv . 553; Festus, s.v.; Mommsen, Hist. of Rome (Eng. tr.), bk. i. ch . 12 .

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