Tinia, the Etrurian Bacchus (son of Tina), identified symbolically with the god of the infernal regions. In the funeral monuments he sometimes assumes the most fearful aspect. The above description of the Etrurian Hades, with its eight gates, is taken in each detail from vases and funeral monuments, most of which are cited by Micali.
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Woe on the helmet-crown of Dorian kings!
In moonless nights, every eighth year, the Spartan Ephors consulted the heavens; if there appeared the meteor, which we call the shooting-star, they adjudged their kings to have committed some offence against the gods, and suspended them from their office till acquitted by the Delphic oracle, or Olympian priests.—Plut. Agis, 11; Muller's Dorians, b. iii. c. 6.
Etrurian Næniæ, load the lagging wind.
Næniæ, the funeral hymns borrowed by the Romans from the Etrurians.
Bright Cupra braids thy hair.
Cupra, or Talna, corresponding with Juno, the nuptial goddess.