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are often accompanied by armilla or bracelets of the same 
description. 
The term Jorgues, by which antiquarians usually desig- 
nate these ornaments, is one of frequent occurrence in the 
classic authors. The word is generally derived from the Cel- 
tic Tore, a twisted collar, or perhaps, more correctly, a twisted 
circular ornament of any kind, as the ancient Irish called a 
collar or neck-chain mun-torc. And since the Latin verb tor- 
queo has no cognate in Greek, it is probably formed from 
the same Celtic root. 
Collars of this kind seem to have been common to all the 
Celtic nations, as we find from ancient writers. Livy tells 
us, that Publius Cornelius, in his triumph over the Boii, a 
Gallic nation, collected, among the spoils, no less than 
‘1470 Torques: and we find in Propertius, that Virdumarus 
king of the Gauls, wore such an ornament. Dio Cassius 
notices a Tore of this description, as ornamenting the per- 
son of the British Queen Boadicea; and even within a few 
centuries of the present time, a Welsh Prince was called Lle- 
wellin aur dorchag, or Llewellin of the Golden Tore. The 
 Torques found in France and Wales are exactly similar to the 
