sb. 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.] (See quot.)
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XV. ix. 47. The Eubages, searching into the highest altitudes of natures worke, endevoured to lay open and declare the same.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Eubages, an order of priests, or philosophers, among the antient Celtæ, or Gauls.
1809. Kendall, Trav., II. xlv. 124. The euhages cultivated what they called natural philosophy.
1827. G. Higgins, Celtic Druids, 275. The Eubages or prophets were the third order.
