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‖ euˈhages, euˈbages, n. pl. Celtic Antiq.
[Lat., occurring twice in a passage of Ammianus Marcellinus; the form eubages in one of the places is a scribal error. The better form euhages is evidently due to a misreading of Gr. οὐατεῖς, Strabo's spelling of a Gaulish word = L. vātes prophet; Ammianus must have read εὐαγεῖς, and taken this for the pl. of εὐαγής pure, holy. Cf. ovate.]
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1609Holland Amm. Marcel. xv. ix, The Eubages..searching into the highest altitudes of nature's worke, endevoured to lay open and declare the same. 1751Chambers Cycl., Eubages, an order of priests, or philosophers, among the antient Celtæ, or Gauls. 1809Kendall Trav. II. xlv. 124 The euhages cultivated what they called natural philosophy. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 275 The Eubages or prophets were the third order. |