TAGES (Tages)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 356
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: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 (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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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