[ 2go ] 
they originally came, they continued to worfhip the 
Cierman deities after their fettlement in Gaul. 
And that they did fo, will further appear from the 
next deity here addrefied to, which is Mars; who 
was not only worfhiped by all the Germans, but like- 
wife in the higheft efteem among them. For one 
of their ambaffadors in a public fpeech made to the 
Kelgic Gauls, as given us by Tacitus, thus exprefles 
himfelf : Redi[Je los in corpus nomengue Germaniae 
comniunibus deis^ Jed ( i ) praeciptio deorum Marti ^ 
grates agimus (2). 
The third and laft name here mentioned isNE- 
METONA, which I have no where elfe met with ; 
but as it ftands conneded with the two former by 
the particle et, it muft, I think, denote fome deity, 
and by the termination a godefs. For thus we have 
Bellona^ llippona, Latona^ Fojnona^ with other names 
of female deities, in the like form. The conlfru- 
dion of the fentence feems indeed to require, that it 
fliould liave ended with the diphthong ae, inlfead 
of the vowel a, as it does in the infcription; tho as 
that letter ftands at the very edge of the ftone, the 
workman might find himfelf obliged to leave it fo. 
but as nothing further appears concerning this godefs 
Nemetona^ it feems moft realbnable to fuppofe her 
to have been one of thofe topical deities, feveral of 
whofe names are found once only in Roman inferi- 
ptions, but never mentioned by their writers ; fome 
of which occur among our Britifti iaferiptions, as 
(1) The Florentine MS. has et in this place inftead of fed^ and 
fo It v.’as read by Sir Henry Savile. 
(2) Hiji. Lib. iv. cap. 64. 
Brigantiay 
