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972 TACONIDES. TALEIDES.
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. (Rapport.
The condensed style of Tacitus sometimes makes Vol. cent. p. 180.) Raoul-Rochette, however, states
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 5AKONIAES.
read carefully and often in order to understand (R. Rochette, Lettre a M. Schorn, p. 60, 2d
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 have held some proalways 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 tuteld. 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 exhis peculiar way; and his opinion is worth more pressed his surprise, as there could be no usucapion
than that of miost people. (Montaigne's Essays, in case of a ward. (Cic. ad Att. i. 5, 8.)
iii. ch. 8 Of the art of discoursing.) Montaigne 2. Q. TADIrs, a relation of Verres, bore witness
justly commends Tacitus for not omitting to state against him when he was impeached by Cicero.
rulnours, 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, carried 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 (Ta[vapos), 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 listof 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 Classisclhen 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 neighedition 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 TarLeipzig, 1831, 2 vols. 8vo.; and by Orelli, ZUrich, chon, the latter shrieked with fear, whereupon
1846 and 1848, 2 vols. 8vo. The Lexicon Ta- other Etruscans hastened to him, and in a short
citeem of B1itticher, 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 Etrusare of little value. The modern commentators are cans, who had listened attentively to his instrucin 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. Tapes;
There are many editions of the several parts of Isidor. Orig. viii. 9; Serv.ad Aen.vi.808.) [L.S.]
Tacitus, particularly the Germanin, the Agricola, TALA'SSIUS or TALASSIS. [THALASSIus.]
and the Dialogue. The edition of G. L. Walch, TALAUS (TaAaos), a son of Bias and Pero,
Berlin, 1827, 8vo., contains the text and a German and king of Argos. He was married to Lysimaclle
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, Gittingen, 1835, 8vo. The (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 13; Pind. Nean. ix. 14.) Hygibest and most complete edition of the Dialogue is nus (I. c.) mentions two other daughters of his. He
by J. C. Orelli, Zurich, 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. (Paus.
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. II. ii. 566; Pind. 01. 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
maeny, and by Henry Savile, 1598, of the Histories tomb at Agrigentum, representing the destruction
and the Aglricola; 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 tcase
cessively diffuse; perhaps it is only a dilution of antichi dipinti, pI. iii. p. 147; Millin, Peint. de Vas.
Gordon. [G. L.] vol. ii. pl. lxi.) Another specimen of his workTACOINIDES or SACO'NIDES, a 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