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whom it is ltterly the fashion in Germany to scorn and scoff at. Me- 

 taphysical knowledge is not common amongst the members of the 

 reigning school of German philologists. August Schleicher forms an 

 honourable exception. 



Schleicher was very fond of music, and himself a skilful performer ; 

 he also had a passion for flowers, which he cultivated in his garden, on, 

 says Professor Kuhn, " strictly scientific principles" — altogether a man 

 of harmonious nature. 



It would be wrong, even in the depths of our grief, to think 

 that such a loss is irretrievable : scientific movements do not depend 

 upon any one individual ; they depend on their own intrinsic truth, 

 that will never fail to find hands to work. Daily and hourly the 

 number of workers in the field of comparative philology is increasing ; 

 yet, many a day and many a year will pass before German philo- 

 logers will have again in their ranks one like him — learned and clear, 

 deep and elegant, bold and cautious — a distinguished scholar, and a 

 noble man. 



XLYI. — The Goddess of Was. of the Ancient Ikish. 

 By W. M. Hennesst. 



[Read January 25, 1869.] 



The discovery of a Gallo -Roman inscription, figured in the " Revue 

 Savoisienne" of the 15th of August, 1 867, and republished byM. Adolphe 

 Pictet in the " Revue ArchEeologique" for July, forms the subject of 

 one of those essays from the pen of the veteran philologist for which 

 the students of Celtic languages and archaeology cannot be sufficiently 

 thankful. 



The inscription, the initial letter of which has been destroyed by an 

 injury to the stone on which it is cut, reads — 

 Athubodvace 

 Aug 



Servilid Teren 

 tia 



8. L. M. ; or, fully extended, 

 Athubodvce Aug\ustaf\ Servilia Terentia [yotuni] s[olvit] l\_ilens] 

 m[erito~\. 



M. Pictet's essay is entitled " Sur une Deesse Gauloise de la 

 guerre and if he is right in his suggestion that the letter destroyed 

 was a c, and it almost amounts to a certainty that he is, and that athu- 

 bodvce should be read cathubodvee, the title is not inappropriate ; and in 

 the cathubodvee of the inscription we may recognise the badb-catha of 

 Irish mythology. 



The etymology of the name athubodua, or cathicbodua, as we may 

 venture to read it, has been examined with great industry by M. Pictet, 

 who has managed to compress within the narrow limits of his essay a 



