NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 401 
D-M:S 
TELESINIAE : CRISPI 
NILLAE: CONIVGI: SANCTIS 
SIMAE: QVAE* OB: DESIDERIVM 
P: LALI: GENTIANI: VICTORIS 
FILI: SVI- PIISSIMI : VIVERE 
ABOMINAVIT: ET: POST: DIES : XV 
FATI- EIVS :ANIMO:- DESPONDIT 
&e. &e. &e. 
And in Cicero, Hpist. ad, Attic. i.3. Aviam tuam seito desiderio tui 
mortuam esse. 
51. That there was a goddess worshipped at Bath under the name 
Sul, there can be no doubt. She is named in inscriptions on four 
altars, and on a tombstone found in that city. Of the inscriptions on 
these altars, two of them prove that she was identified with Minerva. 
The similarity of the name suggests that she may have been the same 
as Sulivia Idennica Minerva in n. 2051, of Orelli’s Inscriptions ; and 
also leads to the belief, that there was some connection between her, 
and the Suleve, Sulevie, Silvie, or Silvane, mentioned in Orelli’s, nn. 
2099, 2101, 2103. The terms Sulevis et Campestribus in 2101, and 
Silvanab. et Quadribis, (i. e. Silvanabus et Quadriviis) favour the 
opinion, that the Suleve should be classed amongst the Matres, traces 
of whose worship have been commonly found, especially in Germany, 
Belgium, and Britain. Mr. Scarth, (Journal of the Archeological 
Association, 1861, p. 16,) regards them as ‘‘ probably attendant 
nymphs” of Su/; and to Mr. Roach Smith, (Roman London, p. 38,) 
‘they appear to have been Sylphs, the tutelary divinities of rivers, 
fountains, hills, roads, villages, and other localities, against whom 
were especially directed, in the fifth and subsequent centuries, the 
anathemas of Christian councils, missionaries, and princes.” 
Dr. Thurnam, in the very able dissertation on the ‘“ Historical Eth- 
nology of Britain,” in Crania Britannica, Dec. iv. p. 130, observes :— 
“ Under that of Sul, a Welsh name of the sun, he (Apollo) was worshipped 
in Brittany, where, under Christianity, he was represented by a pretended St, 
Sul. There are traces of this name in that of various hills—Solsbury, Salisbury, 
Silbury—at Bath, Ribchester, Edinburgh, and Abury, which are so many high 
places of the Sun-god, or Celtic Apollo.” * * * * * 
“The Celts had not only a great male divinity representing the Sun, but 
