Tamiras

Family: Cilician · Role: priestly diviner · First appears: Histories II.1-4

Histories II.1-4

• with Cinyras (Their respective family lines were arranged to preside jointly over the rites.) “A more modern version states that the temple was consecrated by Cinyras, on the spot where the goddess landed when the sea gave her birth. The method of divination, however, according to this account, was imported from elsewhere by the Cilician Tamiras, and an arrangement was made that the descendants of both families should preside over the rites.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.