Editing Tages (section)

==Etrusca disciplina==
[[Joannes Laurentius Lydus]] lived in the sixth&nbsp;century&nbsp;[[AD]]. Although the last classical-period writer to have read the books, he is the most specific about his sources. He implies<ref name=Lydus/> that he read "the texts of the Etruscans"; that is, the ''Etrusca Disciplina'', including the report of the ''[[haruspex]]'', [[Tarchon]], who was instructed by [[Tyrrhenus]]. Tarchon's work on Tages, he says, is a dialogue in which Tarchon asks Tages questions in "the ordinary language of the Italians". This is presumably [[Vulgar Latin]], as Lydus cannot mean any early Italic dialect. Tages' recorded response is "in ancient letters", presumably in the [[Etruscan language]]. Lydus says it is not very understandable, and that he relies on translations.