Gordon's is a harsh version, but, now in the
collection
of Mr.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
i.
4.
)
of such a power inplies soniething of a suspicious The style of Tacitus is peculiar, though it bears
temper, and also cherishes it; and thus Tacitus some resemblance to Sallust. In the Annals it is
sometimes discovers a hidden cause, where an open concise, vigorous, and pregnant with meaning ; la-
one seems to offer a sufficient explanation. Tacitus boured, but elaborated with art, and stripped of
employed this power in the history of Tiberius, every superfluity. A single word sometimes gives
Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Suetonius tells us effect to a sentence, and if the meaning of the word
of a man's vices simply and barely ; Tacitus dis- is missed, the sense of the writer is not reached.
covers what a man tries to conceal. His Annals He leaves something for the reader to fill up, and
are filled with dramatic scenes and striking cata- does not overpower him with words. The words
strophes. He laboured to produce effect by the that he does use are all intended to have a mean-
exhibition of great personages on the stage ; but ing. Such a work is probably the result of many
this is not the business of an historian. The real transcriptions by the author ; if it was produced at
matter of history is a whole people ; and their ac- once in its present form, the author must have
tivity or suffering, mainly as affected by systems practised himself till he could write in no other
of government, is that which the historian has to way. Those who have studied Tacitus much, end
contemplate. This is not the method of Tacitus in with admiring a form of expression which at first
his Annals ; his treatment is directly biographical, is harsh and almost repulsive. One might con-
only indirectly political. His method is inferior to jecture that Tacitus, when he wrote his Annals,
that of Thucydides, and even of Polybius, but it is had by much labour acquired the art of writing
a method almost necessitated by the existence of with difficulty.
political power in the hands of an individual, and The materials which Tacitus had for his his.
modern historians, except within the present cen- torical writings were abundant ; public docu-
tury, have generally followed in the same track ments; memoirs, as those of Agrippina ; histories,
from the same cause.
as those of Fabius Rusticus and Vipsanius Mes-
Tacitus knew nothing of Christianity, which, sala ; the Fasti, Orationes Principum, and the
says Montaigne, was his misfortune, not his fault. Acta of the Senate ; the conversation of his friends,
His practical morality was the Stoical, the only and his own experience. It is not his practice to
one that could give consolation in the age in which give authorities textually, a method which adds to
he lived. The highest example of Stoical morality the value of a history, but impairs its effect simply
among the Romans is the emperor Aurelius, whose as a work of art. He who would erect an historical
golden book is the noblest monument that a Roman monument to his own fame will follow the method
has left behind him. Great and good men were of Tacitus, compress his own researches into a par-
not wanting under the worst emperors, and Tacitus row compass, and give them a form which is
has immortalised their names. Germanicus Caesar, stamped with the individuality of the author.
a humane man, and his intrepid wife, lived under Time will confer on him the authority which the
Tiberius ; Corbulo, an honest and able soldier, fell rigid critic only allows to real evidence. That
a victim to his fidelity to Nero. The memory of Tacitus, in his Annals, purposely omitted every
Agricola, and his virtues, greater than his talents, thing that could impair the effect of his work as a
has been perpetuated by the affection of his son-in- composition, is evident. The Annals are not longer
law ; and his prediction that Agricola will survive than an epitome would be of a more diffuse history;
to future generations is accomplished. Thrasea but they differ altogether from those worthless
Paetus and Helvidius Priscus were models of virtue; literary labours. In the Annals Tacitus is generally
and Arria, the wife of Paetus, remembered the vir- brief and rapid in his sketches ; but he is some-
tues of her mother. The jurists of Rome under the times minute, and almost tedious, when he comes
empire never forgot the bright example of the to work out a dramatic scene. Nor does he alto-
Scaevolae of the republic : strange, though true, I gether neglect his rhetorical art when he has au
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TALEIDES.
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opportunity for displaying it : a Roman historian | Vulci, and published by Gerhard, who gives the
could never forget that a Roman was an orator. name in the first of the above forms. (Rapporl.
The condensed style of Tacitus sometimes makes Vol. cont. p. 180. ) Raoul-Rochette, however, statis
him obscure, but it is a kind of obscurity that is that he has been informed by Gerhard himself that
dispelled by careful reading. Yet a man must the true reading of the name is SAKONIAES.
read carefully and often, in order to understand (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 60, 20
him; and we cannot suppose that Tacitus was ever ed. )
[P. S. )
a popular writer. His real admirers will perhaps TA'DIUS. 1. Appears to bave held some pid-
always be few : his readers fewer still. Montaigne perty, which was said to belong to a girl who was
read the history of Tacitus from the beginning to in legitima tutela. Atticus thought that Tadius
the end, and he has given an opinion of Tacitus in had a title to it by usucapion, at which Cicero ex-
his peculiar way; and his opinion is worth more pressed his surprise, as there could be no usucapion
than that of most people. (Montaigne's Essays, in case of a ward. (Cic. ad Au. i. 5, 8. )
iii. ch. 8 of the art of discoursing. ) Montaigne 2. Q. Tadius, a relation of Verres, bore witness
justly commends Tacitus for not omitting to state against him when he was impeached by Cicero.
rumours, reports, opinions ; for that which is (Cic. Verr. i. 49, iv. 13. )
generally believed at any time is an historical fact, 3. P. Tadius, a Roman citizen, arried on the
though it may be fact in no other sense.
business of a negotiator or money-lender at Athens,
The first edition of Tacitus, which is very rare, and was subsequently a legatus of Verres in Sicily.
was printed at Venice, 1470, by Vindelin de Spira: Notwithstanding the latter connection, he is spoken
it contains only the last six books of the Annals, the of by Cicero as a man of honour. (Cic. Verr. i.
Histories, the Germany, and the Dialogue on Ora- | 39, ii. 20, v. 25).
tory. The edition of P. Beroaldus contains all the TAE'NARUS (Talvapos), a son of Elatus and
works of Tacitus. That of Beatus Rhenanus, Erimede, from whom the promontory and town of
Basil, 1533, folio, was printed by Froben. Subse. Taenarum, in Laconia, were believed to have their
quent editions are very numerous ; and for a list of name. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 102 ; comp.
them, such works as Hain's Repertorium and Paus. iii. 14. $2; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ]
Schweigger's Handbuch der Classischen Biographie, TAGES, a mysterious Etruscan being, who is
may be consulted,
The edition of Ernesti by described as a boy with the wisdom of an old man.
Oberlin, Leipzig, 1801, 8vo. , is useful, for it contains Once when an Etruscan ploughman, of the name of
the notes and excursus of Justus Lipsius. The Tarchon, was drawing a deep furrow in the neigh-
edition of G. Brotier, Paris, 1771, 4 vols. 4to. , has bourhood of Tarquinii, there suddenly rose out of
been much praised, and much bought; but it is a the ground Tages, the son of a genius Jovialis, and
poor edition. There is an edition by I. Bekker, grandson of Jupiter. When Tages addressed Tar.
Leipzig, 1831, 2 vols. 8vo. ; and by Orelli, Zürich, chon, the latter shrieked with fear, whereupon
1846 and 1848, 2 vols. 8vo. The Lericon Tas other Etruscans hastened to him, and in a short
citeum of Bötticher, Berlin, 1830, 8vo. , is not time all the people of Etruria were assembled around
complete enough, nor exact enough, though it is him. Tages now instructed them in the art of the
of some use. The labours of Ruperti on Tacitus haruspices, and died immediately after. The Etrus-
are of little value. The modern commentators are cans, who had listened attentively to his instruc-
in all respects inferior to Lipsius, who did every tions, afterwards wrote down all he had said, and
thing that could be done at the time. Measured thus arose the books of Tages, which, according to
by his means, he is infinitely above all other com- some, were twelve in number. (Cic. de Div. ii.
mentators on Tacitus.
23 ; Ov. Met. xv. 588 ; Festus, s. v. Tages ;
There are many editions of the several parts of Isidor. Orig. viii. 9; Serv. ad Aen. vi. 808. ) (L. S. )
Tacitus, particularly the Germania, the Agricola, TALASSIUS or TALASSIS. (THALASSIUS. )
and the Dialogue. The edition of G. L. Walch, TALAUS (Táxaos), a son of Bias and Pero,
Berlin, 1827, 8vo. , contains the text and a German and king of Argos. He was married to Lysimache
translation of the Agricola, with notes. J. Grimm (Eurynome, Hygin. Fab. 70, or Lysianassa, Paus. ii.
published the text of the Germany, and all other 6. & 3), and was father of Adrastus, Parthenopaeus,
passages relating to Germany, selected from the Pronax, Mecisteus, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle.
other parts of Tacitus, Göttingen, 1835, 8vo. The (Apollod. i. 9. $ 13; Pind. Nem. ix. 14. ) Hygi-
best and most complete edition of the Dialogue is nus (l. c. ) mentions two other daughters of his. He
by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1830, 8vo.
also occurs among the Argonauts (Apollon. Rhod.
There are translations of Tacitus, or parts of i. 118), and his tomb was shown at Argos. (Pause
Tacitus, in almost every European language. The ii. 21. § 2. ) Being a great grandson of Cretheus,
Italian translation of Davanzati is considered to Antimachus in a fragment preserved in Pausanias
have great merit ; and perhaps the Italian language, (viii. 25. § 5) calls him Cretheiades. His own
in able hands, is one of the best adapted for a trans- sons, Adrastus and Mecisteus, are sometimes called
lation of Tacitus. The French translations have Talaionides, as in Hom. Il. ii. 566 ; Pind. Ol. vi.
little merit. D'Alembert translated various pas. 24.
[L. S. )
sages from Tacitus. There are English versions TALEIDES, a maker of painted vases, an
by Greenway, 1598, of the Annals and the Ger- interesting work by whom has been found in a
many, and by Henry Savile, 1598, of the Histories tomb at Agrigentum, representing the destruction
and the Agricola ; also versions by Gordon and of the Minotaur, in the stiff archaic style. It is
by Murphy.
Gordon's is a harsh version, but, now in the collection of Mr. Hope, and is one of
on the whole, faithful. That of Murphy is ex- the vases engraved by Moses. (Lanzi, dei l'asi
cessively diffuse ; perhaps it is only a dilution of antichi dipinti, pl. iii. p. 147 ; Millin, Peint. de las
Gordon.
[G. L. ] vol. ii. pl. lxi. ) Another specimen of his work-
TACO'NIDES or SACO'NIDES, vase-manship has been more recently discovered at
painter, whose name appears on a vase found at | Vulci, namely, a small cup, bearing the inscription
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TAMPHILUS.
3
CADEIAES ETOIESEN, and now in the Museum 'the Athenian navy. (Thucyd. viii. 31 ; Arnold and
at Berlin. (Levezow, Verzeichniss, No. 685, p. 136; Göller, ad loc. ) In B. C. 411, when Tissaphernes
Gerhard, Berlin's ant. Bildwerke, No. 685, p. 223. ) went to Aspendus, with the professed intention of
It is remarkable that vases by the same maker bringing to the aid of the Peloponnesians the
should be found in Sicily and in Etruria ; and also Phoenician fleet which he had promised, he com-
that the two specimens are in quite different styles missioned Tamos to provide for the maintenance
of workmanship. The first of these facts is taken of the Peloponnesian forces during his absence.
by R. Rochette as an indication of the early com- | (Thucyd. viii. 87. ). Tamos afterwards attached
mercial intercourse between Sicily and Etruria, by himself to the service of the younger Cyrus, and,
which the former country obtained the manufactures acting as his admiral, in B. c. 401, blockaded Mi-
of the latter. Müller supposes Taleides to have letus, which had refused to transfer its obedience
been of the Attic school of art, because the subject from Tissaphernes to the prince. When Cyrus
of the work found at Agrigentum is exactly re- marched eastward against his brother, Tamos con-
peated on an Attic vase. (R. Rochette, Lettre à ducted the fleet along the coast to accompany the
M. Schorn, pp. 17, 60, 2d ed. ; Müller, Archäol. movements and second the operations of the army,
d. Kunst, & 99, n. 3, No. 2. )
[P. S. ] which he joined at Issus in Cilicia. After the
TALNA, JUVE'NTIUS. [THALNA. ) death of Cyrus and the consequent failure of the
TA'LIUS GEMINUS, is mentioned by Ta- rebellion, Artaxerxes sent Tissaphernes into West-
citus under A. D. 62. The name of Talius is ofern Asia to take, in addition to his own satrapy,
rare occurrence, and is only found elsewhere in one the command of the provinces which had been
or two inscriptions. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 50. )
subject to the prince, whereupon Tamos, in alarm,
TALOS (Táaws). 1. A son of Perdix, the filed from Ionia with his treasures and all his chil-
sister of Daedalus. He himself was a disciple of dren but one, and sailed to Egypt, where he hoped
Daedalus, and is said to have invented several in to find refuge with Psammetichus, on whom he
struments used in the mechanical arts ; but Dae- had conferred an obligation. Psammetichus, bow-
Jalus incensed by envy thrust him down the rock ever, put him and his children to death, in order
of the Acropolis at Athens. The Athenians wor- to possess himself of his money and ships. (Xen.
shipped him as a hero. (Apollod. iii. 15. $ 9; Diod. Anal. i. 2. $ 21, 4. § 2. ii. 1. § 3, Hell. iii. 1. $ 1;
iv. 76 ; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1643 ; Lucian, Diod. xiv. 19. 21. 35. )
[E. E. )
Pisc. 42. ) Pausanias (i 21. $ 6, 26. § 5, vii. 4. TAMPHILUS or TAMPILUS, the name of
$ 5) calls him Calos, and states that he was buried a family of the plebeian Bacbia gens. In the
on the road leading from the theatre to the Acro- Fasti Capitolini we find Tamphilus, but on coins
polis. Hyginus (Fab. 39, 274) and Ovid (Met. Tampilus.
viii. 255 ; comp. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 143, Aen. 1. Q. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, was sent in B. C.
v. 14) call him Perdix, which, according to the 219, along with P. Valerius Flaccus, by the Ro-
common tradition, was the name of his father. man senate to Hannibal at Saguntum, and after-
2. A man of brass, the work of Hephaestus. This wards proceeded to Carthage, when Hannibal
wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or would not listen to them. Tamphilus was also
Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by sent in the following year on another embassy to
walking round the island thrice every day. When Carthage. (Liv. xxi. 6, 9, 18; Cic. Phil. v. 10. )
ever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself 2. Cn. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, tribune of the
red-hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers plebs, B. C. 204, impeached the censors, M. Livius
when they landed. He had in his body only one Salinator and C. Claudius Nero, on account of the
vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and way in which they had administered the duties of
was closed at the top with a nail. When he at- their office ; but the senate, although discontented
tempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by with the conduct of the censors, obliged the tribune
throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic to drop the prosecution, as they thought it more ad-
powers threw him into a state of madness, or, ac- visable to uphold the principle of the irresponsibility
cording to others, under the pretence of making of the censors than to inflict upon them the punish-
him immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and ment they deserved. In B. c. 199 Tamphilus was
thus caused him to bleed to death. Others again praetor, and received the command of the legions
related that Poeas killed him by wounding him of the consul of the preceding year, C. Aurelius
with an arrow in the ankle. (Apollod. i. 9. § 26 ; Cotta, which were stationed in the neighbourhood
Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1638, &c. ; Plat. Min. p. 320. ) of Ariminum, with instructions to await the ar-
3. A son of Oenopion. (Paus, vii. 4. $ 6. ) rival of the new consul, C. Cornelius Lentulus.
4. A son of Cres, and father of Hephaestus. But Tamphilus, anxious to obtain glory, made an
(Paus. viii. 53. & 2. )
(L. S. ] incursion into the country of the Insubrii, by
TALTHY'BIUS (TarBulls) the herald of whom he was defeated with great loss. On the
Agamemnon at Troy. (Hom. I. i. 320 ; Ov. Her arrival of Lentulus soon afterwards, he was or-
iii. 9. ) He was worshipped as a hero at Sparta dered to leave the province, and was sent back to
and Argos, where sacrifices also were offered to Rome in disgrace. In B. c. 186 Tamphilus was
him. (Paus. üü. 12. § 6, vii. 23, in fin. ; Herod. one of the triumviri for founding two colonies, and
vii. 134. )
(LS. ) in B. C. 182 he was consul with L. Aemilius
TAMI'SIUS MUSTELA. (MUSTELA. ] Paulus. In conjunction with his colleague, Tam-
TA'MOS (Tamás), a native of Memphis in philus fought against the Ligurians with success,
Egypt, was lieutenant-governor of Ionia under and remained in the country as proconsul in the
Tissaphernes.
of such a power inplies soniething of a suspicious The style of Tacitus is peculiar, though it bears
temper, and also cherishes it; and thus Tacitus some resemblance to Sallust. In the Annals it is
sometimes discovers a hidden cause, where an open concise, vigorous, and pregnant with meaning ; la-
one seems to offer a sufficient explanation. Tacitus boured, but elaborated with art, and stripped of
employed this power in the history of Tiberius, every superfluity. A single word sometimes gives
Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Suetonius tells us effect to a sentence, and if the meaning of the word
of a man's vices simply and barely ; Tacitus dis- is missed, the sense of the writer is not reached.
covers what a man tries to conceal. His Annals He leaves something for the reader to fill up, and
are filled with dramatic scenes and striking cata- does not overpower him with words. The words
strophes. He laboured to produce effect by the that he does use are all intended to have a mean-
exhibition of great personages on the stage ; but ing. Such a work is probably the result of many
this is not the business of an historian. The real transcriptions by the author ; if it was produced at
matter of history is a whole people ; and their ac- once in its present form, the author must have
tivity or suffering, mainly as affected by systems practised himself till he could write in no other
of government, is that which the historian has to way. Those who have studied Tacitus much, end
contemplate. This is not the method of Tacitus in with admiring a form of expression which at first
his Annals ; his treatment is directly biographical, is harsh and almost repulsive. One might con-
only indirectly political. His method is inferior to jecture that Tacitus, when he wrote his Annals,
that of Thucydides, and even of Polybius, but it is had by much labour acquired the art of writing
a method almost necessitated by the existence of with difficulty.
political power in the hands of an individual, and The materials which Tacitus had for his his.
modern historians, except within the present cen- torical writings were abundant ; public docu-
tury, have generally followed in the same track ments; memoirs, as those of Agrippina ; histories,
from the same cause.
as those of Fabius Rusticus and Vipsanius Mes-
Tacitus knew nothing of Christianity, which, sala ; the Fasti, Orationes Principum, and the
says Montaigne, was his misfortune, not his fault. Acta of the Senate ; the conversation of his friends,
His practical morality was the Stoical, the only and his own experience. It is not his practice to
one that could give consolation in the age in which give authorities textually, a method which adds to
he lived. The highest example of Stoical morality the value of a history, but impairs its effect simply
among the Romans is the emperor Aurelius, whose as a work of art. He who would erect an historical
golden book is the noblest monument that a Roman monument to his own fame will follow the method
has left behind him. Great and good men were of Tacitus, compress his own researches into a par-
not wanting under the worst emperors, and Tacitus row compass, and give them a form which is
has immortalised their names. Germanicus Caesar, stamped with the individuality of the author.
a humane man, and his intrepid wife, lived under Time will confer on him the authority which the
Tiberius ; Corbulo, an honest and able soldier, fell rigid critic only allows to real evidence. That
a victim to his fidelity to Nero. The memory of Tacitus, in his Annals, purposely omitted every
Agricola, and his virtues, greater than his talents, thing that could impair the effect of his work as a
has been perpetuated by the affection of his son-in- composition, is evident. The Annals are not longer
law ; and his prediction that Agricola will survive than an epitome would be of a more diffuse history;
to future generations is accomplished. Thrasea but they differ altogether from those worthless
Paetus and Helvidius Priscus were models of virtue; literary labours. In the Annals Tacitus is generally
and Arria, the wife of Paetus, remembered the vir- brief and rapid in his sketches ; but he is some-
tues of her mother. The jurists of Rome under the times minute, and almost tedious, when he comes
empire never forgot the bright example of the to work out a dramatic scene. Nor does he alto-
Scaevolae of the republic : strange, though true, I gether neglect his rhetorical art when he has au
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TALEIDES.
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:
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opportunity for displaying it : a Roman historian | Vulci, and published by Gerhard, who gives the
could never forget that a Roman was an orator. name in the first of the above forms. (Rapporl.
The condensed style of Tacitus sometimes makes Vol. cont. p. 180. ) Raoul-Rochette, however, statis
him obscure, but it is a kind of obscurity that is that he has been informed by Gerhard himself that
dispelled by careful reading. Yet a man must the true reading of the name is SAKONIAES.
read carefully and often, in order to understand (R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 60, 20
him; and we cannot suppose that Tacitus was ever ed. )
[P. S. )
a popular writer. His real admirers will perhaps TA'DIUS. 1. Appears to bave held some pid-
always be few : his readers fewer still. Montaigne perty, which was said to belong to a girl who was
read the history of Tacitus from the beginning to in legitima tutela. Atticus thought that Tadius
the end, and he has given an opinion of Tacitus in had a title to it by usucapion, at which Cicero ex-
his peculiar way; and his opinion is worth more pressed his surprise, as there could be no usucapion
than that of most people. (Montaigne's Essays, in case of a ward. (Cic. ad Au. i. 5, 8. )
iii. ch. 8 of the art of discoursing. ) Montaigne 2. Q. Tadius, a relation of Verres, bore witness
justly commends Tacitus for not omitting to state against him when he was impeached by Cicero.
rumours, reports, opinions ; for that which is (Cic. Verr. i. 49, iv. 13. )
generally believed at any time is an historical fact, 3. P. Tadius, a Roman citizen, arried on the
though it may be fact in no other sense.
business of a negotiator or money-lender at Athens,
The first edition of Tacitus, which is very rare, and was subsequently a legatus of Verres in Sicily.
was printed at Venice, 1470, by Vindelin de Spira: Notwithstanding the latter connection, he is spoken
it contains only the last six books of the Annals, the of by Cicero as a man of honour. (Cic. Verr. i.
Histories, the Germany, and the Dialogue on Ora- | 39, ii. 20, v. 25).
tory. The edition of P. Beroaldus contains all the TAE'NARUS (Talvapos), a son of Elatus and
works of Tacitus. That of Beatus Rhenanus, Erimede, from whom the promontory and town of
Basil, 1533, folio, was printed by Froben. Subse. Taenarum, in Laconia, were believed to have their
quent editions are very numerous ; and for a list of name. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 102 ; comp.
them, such works as Hain's Repertorium and Paus. iii. 14. $2; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ]
Schweigger's Handbuch der Classischen Biographie, TAGES, a mysterious Etruscan being, who is
may be consulted,
The edition of Ernesti by described as a boy with the wisdom of an old man.
Oberlin, Leipzig, 1801, 8vo. , is useful, for it contains Once when an Etruscan ploughman, of the name of
the notes and excursus of Justus Lipsius. The Tarchon, was drawing a deep furrow in the neigh-
edition of G. Brotier, Paris, 1771, 4 vols. 4to. , has bourhood of Tarquinii, there suddenly rose out of
been much praised, and much bought; but it is a the ground Tages, the son of a genius Jovialis, and
poor edition. There is an edition by I. Bekker, grandson of Jupiter. When Tages addressed Tar.
Leipzig, 1831, 2 vols. 8vo. ; and by Orelli, Zürich, chon, the latter shrieked with fear, whereupon
1846 and 1848, 2 vols. 8vo. The Lericon Tas other Etruscans hastened to him, and in a short
citeum of Bötticher, Berlin, 1830, 8vo. , is not time all the people of Etruria were assembled around
complete enough, nor exact enough, though it is him. Tages now instructed them in the art of the
of some use. The labours of Ruperti on Tacitus haruspices, and died immediately after. The Etrus-
are of little value. The modern commentators are cans, who had listened attentively to his instruc-
in all respects inferior to Lipsius, who did every tions, afterwards wrote down all he had said, and
thing that could be done at the time. Measured thus arose the books of Tages, which, according to
by his means, he is infinitely above all other com- some, were twelve in number. (Cic. de Div. ii.
mentators on Tacitus.
23 ; Ov. Met. xv. 588 ; Festus, s. v. Tages ;
There are many editions of the several parts of Isidor. Orig. viii. 9; Serv. ad Aen. vi. 808. ) (L. S. )
Tacitus, particularly the Germania, the Agricola, TALASSIUS or TALASSIS. (THALASSIUS. )
and the Dialogue. The edition of G. L. Walch, TALAUS (Táxaos), a son of Bias and Pero,
Berlin, 1827, 8vo. , contains the text and a German and king of Argos. He was married to Lysimache
translation of the Agricola, with notes. J. Grimm (Eurynome, Hygin. Fab. 70, or Lysianassa, Paus. ii.
published the text of the Germany, and all other 6. & 3), and was father of Adrastus, Parthenopaeus,
passages relating to Germany, selected from the Pronax, Mecisteus, Aristomachus, and Eriphyle.
other parts of Tacitus, Göttingen, 1835, 8vo. The (Apollod. i. 9. $ 13; Pind. Nem. ix. 14. ) Hygi-
best and most complete edition of the Dialogue is nus (l. c. ) mentions two other daughters of his. He
by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1830, 8vo.
also occurs among the Argonauts (Apollon. Rhod.
There are translations of Tacitus, or parts of i. 118), and his tomb was shown at Argos. (Pause
Tacitus, in almost every European language. The ii. 21. § 2. ) Being a great grandson of Cretheus,
Italian translation of Davanzati is considered to Antimachus in a fragment preserved in Pausanias
have great merit ; and perhaps the Italian language, (viii. 25. § 5) calls him Cretheiades. His own
in able hands, is one of the best adapted for a trans- sons, Adrastus and Mecisteus, are sometimes called
lation of Tacitus. The French translations have Talaionides, as in Hom. Il. ii. 566 ; Pind. Ol. vi.
little merit. D'Alembert translated various pas. 24.
[L. S. )
sages from Tacitus. There are English versions TALEIDES, a maker of painted vases, an
by Greenway, 1598, of the Annals and the Ger- interesting work by whom has been found in a
many, and by Henry Savile, 1598, of the Histories tomb at Agrigentum, representing the destruction
and the Agricola ; also versions by Gordon and of the Minotaur, in the stiff archaic style. It is
by Murphy.
Gordon's is a harsh version, but, now in the collection of Mr. Hope, and is one of
on the whole, faithful. That of Murphy is ex- the vases engraved by Moses. (Lanzi, dei l'asi
cessively diffuse ; perhaps it is only a dilution of antichi dipinti, pl. iii. p. 147 ; Millin, Peint. de las
Gordon.
[G. L. ] vol. ii. pl. lxi. ) Another specimen of his work-
TACO'NIDES or SACO'NIDES, vase-manship has been more recently discovered at
painter, whose name appears on a vase found at | Vulci, namely, a small cup, bearing the inscription
a
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TAMOS.
973
TAMPHILUS.
3
CADEIAES ETOIESEN, and now in the Museum 'the Athenian navy. (Thucyd. viii. 31 ; Arnold and
at Berlin. (Levezow, Verzeichniss, No. 685, p. 136; Göller, ad loc. ) In B. C. 411, when Tissaphernes
Gerhard, Berlin's ant. Bildwerke, No. 685, p. 223. ) went to Aspendus, with the professed intention of
It is remarkable that vases by the same maker bringing to the aid of the Peloponnesians the
should be found in Sicily and in Etruria ; and also Phoenician fleet which he had promised, he com-
that the two specimens are in quite different styles missioned Tamos to provide for the maintenance
of workmanship. The first of these facts is taken of the Peloponnesian forces during his absence.
by R. Rochette as an indication of the early com- | (Thucyd. viii. 87. ). Tamos afterwards attached
mercial intercourse between Sicily and Etruria, by himself to the service of the younger Cyrus, and,
which the former country obtained the manufactures acting as his admiral, in B. c. 401, blockaded Mi-
of the latter. Müller supposes Taleides to have letus, which had refused to transfer its obedience
been of the Attic school of art, because the subject from Tissaphernes to the prince. When Cyrus
of the work found at Agrigentum is exactly re- marched eastward against his brother, Tamos con-
peated on an Attic vase. (R. Rochette, Lettre à ducted the fleet along the coast to accompany the
M. Schorn, pp. 17, 60, 2d ed. ; Müller, Archäol. movements and second the operations of the army,
d. Kunst, & 99, n. 3, No. 2. )
[P. S. ] which he joined at Issus in Cilicia. After the
TALNA, JUVE'NTIUS. [THALNA. ) death of Cyrus and the consequent failure of the
TA'LIUS GEMINUS, is mentioned by Ta- rebellion, Artaxerxes sent Tissaphernes into West-
citus under A. D. 62. The name of Talius is ofern Asia to take, in addition to his own satrapy,
rare occurrence, and is only found elsewhere in one the command of the provinces which had been
or two inscriptions. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 50. )
subject to the prince, whereupon Tamos, in alarm,
TALOS (Táaws). 1. A son of Perdix, the filed from Ionia with his treasures and all his chil-
sister of Daedalus. He himself was a disciple of dren but one, and sailed to Egypt, where he hoped
Daedalus, and is said to have invented several in to find refuge with Psammetichus, on whom he
struments used in the mechanical arts ; but Dae- had conferred an obligation. Psammetichus, bow-
Jalus incensed by envy thrust him down the rock ever, put him and his children to death, in order
of the Acropolis at Athens. The Athenians wor- to possess himself of his money and ships. (Xen.
shipped him as a hero. (Apollod. iii. 15. $ 9; Diod. Anal. i. 2. $ 21, 4. § 2. ii. 1. § 3, Hell. iii. 1. $ 1;
iv. 76 ; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1643 ; Lucian, Diod. xiv. 19. 21. 35. )
[E. E. )
Pisc. 42. ) Pausanias (i 21. $ 6, 26. § 5, vii. 4. TAMPHILUS or TAMPILUS, the name of
$ 5) calls him Calos, and states that he was buried a family of the plebeian Bacbia gens. In the
on the road leading from the theatre to the Acro- Fasti Capitolini we find Tamphilus, but on coins
polis. Hyginus (Fab. 39, 274) and Ovid (Met. Tampilus.
viii. 255 ; comp. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 143, Aen. 1. Q. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, was sent in B. C.
v. 14) call him Perdix, which, according to the 219, along with P. Valerius Flaccus, by the Ro-
common tradition, was the name of his father. man senate to Hannibal at Saguntum, and after-
2. A man of brass, the work of Hephaestus. This wards proceeded to Carthage, when Hannibal
wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or would not listen to them. Tamphilus was also
Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by sent in the following year on another embassy to
walking round the island thrice every day. When Carthage. (Liv. xxi. 6, 9, 18; Cic. Phil. v. 10. )
ever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself 2. Cn. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, tribune of the
red-hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers plebs, B. C. 204, impeached the censors, M. Livius
when they landed. He had in his body only one Salinator and C. Claudius Nero, on account of the
vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and way in which they had administered the duties of
was closed at the top with a nail. When he at- their office ; but the senate, although discontented
tempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by with the conduct of the censors, obliged the tribune
throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic to drop the prosecution, as they thought it more ad-
powers threw him into a state of madness, or, ac- visable to uphold the principle of the irresponsibility
cording to others, under the pretence of making of the censors than to inflict upon them the punish-
him immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and ment they deserved. In B. c. 199 Tamphilus was
thus caused him to bleed to death. Others again praetor, and received the command of the legions
related that Poeas killed him by wounding him of the consul of the preceding year, C. Aurelius
with an arrow in the ankle. (Apollod. i. 9. § 26 ; Cotta, which were stationed in the neighbourhood
Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1638, &c. ; Plat. Min. p. 320. ) of Ariminum, with instructions to await the ar-
3. A son of Oenopion. (Paus, vii. 4. $ 6. ) rival of the new consul, C. Cornelius Lentulus.
4. A son of Cres, and father of Hephaestus. But Tamphilus, anxious to obtain glory, made an
(Paus. viii. 53. & 2. )
(L. S. ] incursion into the country of the Insubrii, by
TALTHY'BIUS (TarBulls) the herald of whom he was defeated with great loss. On the
Agamemnon at Troy. (Hom. I. i. 320 ; Ov. Her arrival of Lentulus soon afterwards, he was or-
iii. 9. ) He was worshipped as a hero at Sparta dered to leave the province, and was sent back to
and Argos, where sacrifices also were offered to Rome in disgrace. In B. c. 186 Tamphilus was
him. (Paus. üü. 12. § 6, vii. 23, in fin. ; Herod. one of the triumviri for founding two colonies, and
vii. 134. )
(LS. ) in B. C. 182 he was consul with L. Aemilius
TAMI'SIUS MUSTELA. (MUSTELA. ] Paulus. In conjunction with his colleague, Tam-
TA'MOS (Tamás), a native of Memphis in philus fought against the Ligurians with success,
Egypt, was lieutenant-governor of Ionia under and remained in the country as proconsul in the
Tissaphernes.
