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die Umbro, as theltalians use the Ablative Instead of the Nomina.
tive) the same with the Humber in England. In the same district
we find a town of the name of Narnia, the same with Nairn in
Scotland.
Tagh or
Here we also find a man of the name of Tages (Gallice
Tadgh, the same name as that of the grand father of
Fingal) of whom Cicero, de divinatione, lib. 2,
gives the following
account. Tages Quidam dicitur, in agro Tarquiniensi,
quum terra araretur, et sulcus altius impressus, extitisse repente,
et eum affatus esse qui arabat, &c. i. e. " When a man was
plowing in the
Tarquinian field, and had drawn a deep furrow,
a certain one Tages is said to have started up suddenly, and ad.
dressed him." But this Tages, according to the books of the
Etrusci, is said to have had the appearance of a boy, but the
wisdom of an old man. When the plowman, terrified at the
sight of him, had raised a loud cry, the
all Etruria convened in a short time to that place.
people assembled, and
Then Tages
spoke many things in the audience of the multitude, who marked
all his words, and committed them to writing. But his whole
speech was confined to the Haruspicinian doctrine, i. e. "the
art of divination by the entrails of victims, &c." Ovid. lib. 15.
Metam. mentions this same Tages.
Indigent dixcre Tagem, qui primus Hetruscam
Edocuit gentem casus aperire futaros, &c,
i. e. " The aboriginal inhabitants call him Tages, who first
taught the Tuscan nation to disclose future events."
Were we in this manner to pervade Europe, and contrast
the names found therein, with the names in any particular district
of Britain or Ireland, we might form a tolerable conjectare
of the origin of the inhabitants.
The Fir.Bolg of Ireland (Tirt
Belgici,) are unquestionably a colony from Belgic Gaul.
Caernarvon in Wales, (Civitates Narbonensis) derives its name
from Narhhonne, a town in Gallia Narbonends.
The Taixali of
Aberdeenshire were ^ircbabiy from the Tcxelln Holland.
Fins are frequent in
The
Br.tiin and Ire'and, and on the Baltic we
find a wliole district (Fiulan !) bearfng their name.
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