i899 J. BELLOWS — ROMAN RI-MAINS 51 



"ache." It is the abbreviation of aqua or aqucB. In the 

 same way, in the Riviera we find the five syllables of 

 Forum Julii clipped down to two in the modern name 

 of Fre'jus. 



In the remarkable map known as Peutinger's, which 

 comes down to us from about the third centur)% there is 

 a peculiarity which throws light upon the architecture of 

 the Baths. This map is really a series of road-plans, 

 marking the stations in Gaul, &.c. ; and wherever there is 

 a thermal station (similar to Bath) it is depicted as a sheet 

 of water surrounded on three sides by rooms, but with 

 the centre left unroofed or open to the sky. The entrance 

 is indicated as a pillared portico, with no building over it, 

 and there seems no reason to doubt that the present 

 pillared entrance to the Abbey Yard and Pump Room, at 

 Bath, is a simple evolution from the style so clearly 

 shown as that of a thermal station by Peutinger; that is, 

 that each succeeding architect has copied the work he has 

 replaced, with but unimportant modifications, since the 

 Roman time. In the same way "Bath street" (opposite 

 this portico), the present houses in which date from last 

 century, preserves the Roman tradition of the pillared 

 walks for the foot passengers on both sides of the way. 

 We have examples of this in many other Roman towns in 

 Britain and on the Continent. 



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