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lengthens out into Sulinis, and deviates into Sulcvis. Yet 

 what is the iniport of this varying appellatlon in the 

 British language ? It is the same in general with the 

 appellation of Minerva Mcdica, at Rome. ISünerva Sulis, 

 er Sul-Minerva, is one that was medicinal, fi-om the influ- 

 ence of the sun, the Solar Minerva. Thus, Heul, Syl is the 

 sun in Cornish ; Haiü, Heyle, Heyluen, in Welsh, are 

 the sun, as Sul ia the Sunday. Soil-bheim, in Irish, is a 

 flash or bolt of light ; athunder holt, Solas ; Solus is light; 

 Sul the sun ; Dia Suil the Sunday ; Suil, the eye ; Sul- 

 beim, a bewitching by the eye ; Söl in the Armoric, is 

 Sunday ; Sul-Pask Easter Sunday ; Suliou are Sundays. 

 The origin of Minerva's British title, therefore, is that very 

 reference of the hot si^rings to the influence ofthe sun, which 

 fixed upon the city itself this appellation ; from thence the 

 " Waters of the Sun." 



Before passing on to consider the altars dedicated to the 

 Goddess Sul, that have been discovercd, we must notice an 

 altar, or Cippus, as Mr. Warner terms it, which was dis- 

 covered at the lower end of Stall Street, 1783. Two other 

 altars were discovered with it, one a votive altar to the 

 Sulevce, and one erected by a citizen of Treves. This 

 Cippus has formed the subject of many learned dissertations. 

 (See Prof. Ward, Phil. Tran., xl\dii, p. 332 ; also Gough's 

 Camden, v. iii., p. 9 ; Warner's 111. ix.; History App. p. 121 ; 

 and Whltaker, Antijacobin Rev., x.) 



This altar commemorates the restoration, by " Caius 

 Severus, a centurion,'' (who had either the additional name 

 of "Emeritus," or was discharged from his legion,) of some 

 place which had been consecrated to religious pm'poses, 

 and which had fallen to decay. This decay had been pro- 

 duced " per insolentiam," which may be understood to 

 mean " through disuse ; " but that docs not suit with 



