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TANAQUIL

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 394 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TANAQUIL . the
Etruscan
  name of the wife of Tarquinius Priscus, or of one of his sons. After her immigration to Rome she is said to have received the name Gaia Caecilia. She was famous for her shrewdness and prophetic gifts, which enabled her to foretell the future greatness of her
husband
  and of Servius Tullius. There was a statue of her as Gaia Caecilia in the temple of Sancus, which possessed magical
powers
 . She was celebrated as a spinner of
wool
 , and was supposed to exercise
influence
  over
Roman
  brides. Tanaquil and Gaia Caecilia are, however, really distinct personalities. The anecdotes .told of Gaia Caecilia are aetiological myths intended to explain ,certain usages at
Roman
  marriages.
See
Livy
 , i. 34, 41; Pliny, Nat. Hist., viii. 74,
xxxvi
 . 70; Schwegler, ROmische Geschichte, bk. xv. 8.


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