The corpus record — Latin

Tages

Tages · m

an Etrurian divinity

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Where it lives

De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

Tăges, is, m.,

I an Etrurian divinity, grandson of Jupiter; he sprang from the ploughed earth in the form of a boy, and taught the Etrurians the art of divination, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50; Ov. M. 15, 558; Amm. 21, 1, 10; Stat. S. 5, 2, 1; Luc. 1, 637; Col. 10, 345; Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 398; Censor. de Die Nat. 4.—Hence, Tăgētĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tages: sacra, Carmin. ap. Macr. S. 5, 19 med.

In the wild

Tages Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.1.10
Tages Lucan, Pharsalia 1.637
Tages Cicero, De Divinatione 2.51.p1
Tages Cicero, De Divinatione 2.50.p2
Tages Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.223
Tages Cicero, De Divinatione 2.50.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.