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XV. Mr. GOUGH, on the DEAE MATRES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Among the unknown Gods which seem to have been introduced at Rome, or worshiped in her provinces, and occur in inscriptions in the later periods of her empire, the Deae Matres have given no small trouble to Antiquaries.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1775

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page 105 note [a] B. G. I. 40.

page 105 note [b] De morib. Germ. c. 8.

page 105 note [c] Tacitus, Ann. xiv, c. 32.

page 105 note [d] In his Antiq. Sept, p. 479.

page 106 note [e] This last was also the opinion of Bochart.

page 106 note [f] It is adopted by the author of la Religion des Gaulois, and confuted by Abbé Banier.

page 106 note [g] This seems corrupted for Gallicis, which occurs on an inscription found in Spain, given by Montfaucon, II. II. 5. 5. Horsley, p. 275. Banier and Keysler, p. 436, read of Gallicia in Spain, inhabited anciently by the Gallaici.

page 107 note [h] Keysler, p. 435.

page 107 note [i] See Horsley, p. 275.

page 107 note [k] Also in Burton's Antoninus, p. 49. and Gale's Antoninus, p. 7.

page 107 note [l] See Horsley, p. 89.

page 107 note [m] Cumb. LI. Durh. II. XXVIII.

page 107 note [n] Delmatarum for Dalmatarum occurs in Horsl. Cumb. LIV, LV.

page 108 note [o] Scot, XXVIII. [p] Gerunda is in Spain, Cellarius I. p. 117. Antoninus places Gerulata in Pannonia; perhaps we should read Gerudata, or Geruda.

page 108 note [q] Misc. Er. Ant. LXXVI.

page 108 note [r] Keysler, p. 416, has plainly shewn that Junones were the Genii of women.

page 108 note [s] Hist. of Caraus. I. p. 268.

page 108 note [t] Comment, in Anton, p. 8.

page 108 note [u] Romanebus, Rumaehabus, or Rumaenabus, N being easily mistaken for H; and many inscriptions in Gruter have been lesss correctly copied.

page 109 note [w] Horsl Cumb. LI. p. 274, 298.

page 109 note [x] Keysler, Antiq. Septent. p. 394, 407.

page 109 note [y] Mythologie, V. p. 507.

page 109 note [z] L. iv. p. 194. ed. Wesseling.—The three nymphs, whom Theocritus, xii. 44. introduces Hercules invoking on the loss of Hylas, mull be Asiatic deities, and seem to be only three names invented by the poet. Banier indeed thinks they were Deae Matres.

page 109 note [a] In Verrem, iv. 44, though Keysler, p. 423, justifies his sentiment.

page 109 note [b] Spon, Miscell. Er. Ant. p. LXXVIII, Banier, ubi sup. Keysler, 423.

page 110 note [c] Spon de-Diis ignotis, p. 59. Quare if the Sulevae are the same with the Alatervae, who accompany the Campestres in an Inscription in Horsley, Scot. xxix.

page 110 note [d] Horsley, North, XLVIII. p. 224.

page 110 note [e] P. 394.

page 110 note [f] Printed in the Archaeologia, vol. II. p. 58.