Re: [tied] Etruscan Tages

In a message dated 01/03/01 10:15:06 GMT Standard Time,
glengordon01@... writes:

> First things first... I have a question. How can the name be Tages in
> Etruscan? Is this a Hellenized or Latinized version of the Etruscan name?
> Has the name Tages actually been found in Etruscan texts in this form or

is

> this a second-hand "mundus" phenom. I have an issue with the -g- and yet

all

> I see is "Tages" this and "Tages" that.

Absolutely right, it can't be Etruscan with that G. Tages is only known from
Greek and Roman writings. Tages may be the same as Etruscan 'Pava Tarxies',
however.


Ed. Robertson